On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 10:17  AM, john heasley wrote:

> i believe that the -current pthreads implementation is also
> non-preemptable, but the documentation is a little thin at the
> moment and i have not done anything serious with it yet.

The pthreads in -current *are* preemptable.  However, we don't have 
priority scheduling for pthreads yet.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>