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Date:      Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:05:11 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Critical Sections for userland.
Message-ID:  <86zlyzqmgo.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20071003015231.GJ31826@elvis.mu.org> (Alfred Perlstein's message of "Tue\, 2 Oct 2007 18\:52\:31 -0700")
References:  <20071003015231.GJ31826@elvis.mu.org>

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Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> writes:
> Hi guys, we need critical sections for userland here.
>
> This is basically to avoid a process being switched out while holding
> a user level spinlock.

Yeah, great idea, cooperative multitasking is the new black!

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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