From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 2 21:44:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1F3D16A421 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:44:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7990243D4C for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 21:44:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 82745 invoked by uid 0); 2 Nov 2005 21:44:40 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 2 Nov 2005 21:44:40 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA2LiNXK027896; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 05:44:24 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <43693337.3020304@alphaque.com> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:44:23 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050915 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <4361044B.50807@alphaque.com> <20051027.205250.55834228.imp@bsdimp.com> <43690424.1040904@alphaque.com> <20051102.121248.74711520.imp@bsdimp.com> <43692719.90805@alphaque.com> <43692C86.4040509@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <43692C86.4040509@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: locking in a device driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:44:43 -0000 On 11/03/05 05:15 Scott Long said the following: > before the ioctl call runs. But it does work. Look at the aac(4) > driver for my example of this. i will, it sounds like a good solution. > The other option is to use rfork, aka 'linuxthreads' to similate threads i could try with linuxthreads, but some calls which are not threadsafe may be made by the userland app. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.alphaque.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+