From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Sep 4 9:41:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48CE337B405; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AFDD43E88; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:40:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020904164013.KGPV13899.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:40:13 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA31530; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:26:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Bruce Evans Cc: John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: Process/thread states. In-Reply-To: <20020904194643.H914-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > > I'd rather see (td->td_state == TDS_RUNNING). Only very lay readers don't > want to know anything about the details hidden by the macro. The reason I consider using Macros to test and set these states is that several people suggested it as a way to abstract away the possible complications of the states. I'm kind of curious that almost no-one seems to have comments on this consider it's what I would consider to be prime arguing material. apparently no-one cares any more.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message