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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 1997 15:17:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_aio.c
Message-ID:  <199712012017.PAA01433@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199712011841.KAA14631@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199712011841.KAA14631@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Mon, 1 Dec 1997 10:41:09 -0800 (PST), John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

>   Fix a problem when creating a new kernel thread.  In some cases, aio_read
>   or aio_write can return the pid of the new thread.  This is due to the
>   way that return values from system calls being passed by side-effect in
>   the proc structure now.  This commit fixes the problem with aio_read and
>   aio_write.
  
This is an example of why said change was a mistake...

-GAWollman

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