Upcalls in VMS?
Eugene Zharkov wrote: > I am somewhat confused by the OpenVMS Linker documentation, by the part > whcih describes the /threads_enable qualifier. Here is an extract from > there: > > […] > > What confuses me is the following. A section about two-level scheduling > and upcalls in the Guide to DECthreads explicitly states that “this > section applies to OpenVMS ALPHA only”. The above description of the > MULTIPLE_KERNEL_THREADS option states that the option is applicable only > to ALPHA systems. The above description of the UPCALLS options does not > mention a system it applies to. Does that means that the upcalls > mechanism is actually implemented on OpenVMS VAX? (Apologies to Dan Sugalski for apparently ignoring his answers, but since he wasn’t completely sure, I figured it was best to go back to the beginning for a definitive resolution.) Despite the cleverly leading hint in the documentation, you should assume that neither upcalls nor kernel threads exist, nor will they ever exist,
