From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 29 13:42:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E2637B401; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (#6@localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6TKfxn41502; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:41:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200107292041.f6TKfxn41502@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Daniel Eischen , y-carden@uniandes.edu.co, jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: KNOTE() References: <3B646B72.813A46DC@mindspring.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:00:50 PDT." <3B646B72.813A46DC@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:41:59 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel? > > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve. > > See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints > of an existing library and API. Yes, except these are problems of his own making because the library and API were originally user-mode code and not in the kernel. Somewhere along the way a decision was made to push that function into the kernel, and all these bizzaro "problems" of calling back user-mode code from the kernel, etc. follow from that decision. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message