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Date:      Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:17:21 +0000
From:      Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removing kernel thread stack swapping
Message-ID:  <20050305091721.GA18089@infradead.org>
In-Reply-To: <4227AC82.7000606@samsco.org>
References:  <20050303074242.GA14699@VARK.MIT.EDU> <200503030954.08271.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050303165825.GB4737@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42279DEF.2030901@freebsd.org> <4227AC82.7000606@samsco.org>

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:32:02PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> The kernel is not a POSIX C environment.  It's not just a program that
> happens to do special things.  I know that Linux goes to great lengths
> to support this concept,

That's not true at all.  The Liux kernel enviroment is very different from
normal userland programming and there's not move towards changing that,
quite contrary.


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