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Date:      Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:45:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: curthread vs. passing thread pointers around
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203291244530.726-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020329202504.GZ93885@elvis.mu.org>

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [020329 11:55] wrote:
> > In message <20020329194158.GX93885@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
> > >* John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [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?

then they can (AB)use curthread..



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