From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 16 06:14:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA25962 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 06:14:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA25953 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 06:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.4/8.6.9) id IAA04463; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:14:06 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199704161314.IAA04463@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Doing the FreeBSD tightrope walk. In-Reply-To: from Brian Tao at "Apr 16, 97 08:51:43 am" To: taob@nbc.netcom.ca (Brian Tao) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:14:06 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. ;-) > I have been watching that. That is more in Bruce's and Peter W.'s area, but I am willing to work on that also. John