From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 29 13:40:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3A337B416; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:40:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020329214004.TMVH2928.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:40:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA00932; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curthread vs. passing thread pointers around In-Reply-To: <20020329202504.GZ93885@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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? then they can (AB)use curthread.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message