Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:00:21 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <200201062000.g06K0La35178@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <20020106032709.A82406@elvis.mu.org> "from Alfred Perlstein at Jan 6, 2002 03:27:09 am"
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Alfred Perlstein writes: > > Is there a reason that getcontext and setcontext need to be > > system calls? > > Atomicity? That can't be why.. otherwise this would imply that just because something is written in assembly instead of C that it could have atomicity problems. BTW, I think this adding these is a great idea.. e.g., the pth port can take advantage of these as well. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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