From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 29 12:25: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3212F37B400; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 0FCBEAE1C6; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:25:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:25:04 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curthread vs. passing thread pointers around Message-ID: <20020329202504.GZ93885@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020329194158.GX93885@elvis.mu.org> <72088.1017431691@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72088.1017431691@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 * Poul-Henning Kamp [020329 11:55] wrote: > In message <20020329194158.GX93885@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >* John Baldwin [020329 11:32] wrote: > >> During a discussion on the smp@ list about changes to the suser() > >> API to make use of td_ucred, [...] > > On a related note: I intend to change the open/close/ioctl interface > to device drivers from a "struct thread *" to a "struct ucred *". What about people (ab)?using the device driver interface for proc related stuff? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message