From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 17 19:58:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09593 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09577 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA19502; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:57:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdZ19500; Fri Dec 18 03:57:34 1998 Message-ID: <3679D2AA.237C228A@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 19:57:30 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: "Richard Seaman, Jr." , "current@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Linux Threads patches available References: <199812180345.TAA01088@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > [...] > Thanks again for the summary; it's made the situation fairly clear. > From my first reading, a couple of questions: > > - Completeness would suggest that you should use vm_map_stack for the > "original" process stack as well as for subsequent thread stacks. > Is there a counter-argument? I was wondering this too. > > - Any reason (again for completeness) you couldn't add the remaining > syscalls you list in the sigsuspend.S change to the patch? probably only because they are unrelated. [...] > > - Any reason you don't want to become a committer? good one... :-) The only downside I see to this is the addition of 328 bytes to the size of the proc struct. when those structs were in the U area, they were swapable. mind you, how many processes are swapped entirely on most systems? julian (who wants to see this committed but wants a few backers) Maybe it should be 'conditionally' integrated.. (all dependent on #ifdef SHAREDSIGS or LINUX_CLONE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message