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diff --git a/man/man3/thread.3 b/man/man3/thread.3 index 02e4c868..c0a59091 100644 --- a/man/man3/thread.3 +++ b/man/man3/thread.3 @@ -158,27 +158,21 @@ by The thread library provides a .I main function that sets up a proc with a single thread executing -.I threadmain -on a stack of size -.I mainstacksize -(default eight kilobytes). -To set -.IR mainstacksize , -declare a global variable -initialized to the desired value -.RI ( e.g. , -.B int -.B mainstacksize -.B = -.BR 1024 ). -When using the +.IR threadmain . +.PP +Every thread is backed by an operating system-provided .I pthread -library, -.B mainstacksize -is ignored, as is the stack size argument to -.BR proccreate : -the first thread in each proc -runs on the native system stack. +and runs on its system-provided stack; +.I mainstacksize +and the the stack size arguments to +.I proccreate +and +.I threadcreate +are ignored. +Although each thread is backed by a separate +.IR pthread , +the threads in a proc are still scheduled non-preemptively +as on Plan 9 and as described below. .PP .I Threadcreate creates a new thread in the calling proc, returning a unique integer |