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This article is from the Threads Programming FAQ, by Bryan O'Sullivan bos@serpentine.com with numerous contributions by others.

6. What are the different kinds of threads? (Programming)

There are two main kinds of threads implementations:
* User-space threads, and
* Kernel-supported threads.

There are several sets of differences between these different threads
implementations.

 

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