Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:57:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curthread vs. passing thread pointers around Message-ID: <3CA4FF5A.A672E5E5@mindspring.com> References: <79085.1017433956@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020329202504.GZ93885@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > >What about people (ab)?using the device driver interface for proc > >related stuff? > > The main purpose of the excercise is stop such abuse: People think > they can track per instance using that argument, and _that_ just ain't > going to happen until we hang devices directly under struct file > and doing that will screw filesystems which use VOP's to access > their device big time. Poul's right. If you were guaranteed the ability to do this, then people would be able to use multiple sessions of VMWare on FreeBSD, only a few *YEARS* after VMWare was first ported. Then where would we be? Oh wait. That's a good thing. Poul's wrong. Never mind. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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