From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 16 05:52:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA25197 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:52:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA25192 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 05:52:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA12950; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:51:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:51:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: "John S. Dyson" cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doing the FreeBSD tightrope walk. In-Reply-To: <199704160200.VAA01268@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, John S. Dyson wrote in freebsd-hackers: > > So we were wrong :-). I always hated the bounce buffer support that > I wrote -- and would have done it better again. But darn'it I don't > think that there are many jobs for bounce-buffer writers :-). Well, there's a lot of talk about removal of stack execution in Linux and how gcc trampoline code gets around it. You'd be an expert. ;-) "Tightropes, trampolines, bounce buffers, oh my..." -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"