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<<On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:02:45 -0800 (PST), Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> said:

> And, this mechanism would be explicitly used for "non portable" or
> experimental functions (such as the closeall() which started the
> thread, or next time someone comes up with a start_http_server_thread())
> and avoiding overloading an existing syscall or having to modify
> libc

This assumes that experimental functionality is always going to
implemented as a system call.

-GAWollman



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