From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 29 15:57:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEE237B417; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:57:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0156.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.156] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16r6FV-0005v2-00; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:57:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3CA4FF5A.A672E5E5@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:57:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Alfred Perlstein , John Baldwin , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: curthread vs. passing thread pointers around References: <79085.1017433956@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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