From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 20 21:26:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94D7314DC8 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:26:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA23410 for ; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 06:26:36 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id GAA12397 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 06:26:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A245D14E76 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA38232; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:25:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:25:46 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Nate Williams Cc: "Daniel M. Eischen" , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads In-Reply-To: <199911210514.WAA13707@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > New calls must be able to return and say > > "hey it's not me returnuing, but actually a new KSE, " > > Not only that, but you need a way for it to be 'aborted' out and have it > cleanup as it goes. I suspect that this will require re-writing a large > number of syscalls with threading in mind, and leaving the 'old' calls > in place will allow more flexibility as things change. > > I could envision the 'old' calls going away at some point as the new > calls get completely fleshed out and tested, to be replaced with simple > wrappers for the threaded calls. > Maybe in the libraries, but we will need to keep the old syscalls in the kernel effectively forever. (for old binaries) It's not much of a cost.. (look at linux emulation). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message