From owner-freebsd-arch Sun May 14 1: 4:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6E837B87E for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:04:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12qtOI-0008Wt-0B; Sun, 14 May 2000 08:04:46 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA04748; Sun, 14 May 2000 09:09:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:09:19 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Amancio Hasty Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution In-Reply-To: <200005132336.QAA43041@rah.star-gate.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, 13 May 2000, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Hi Doug! > > Great idea!! > > Say, how you thought of how to to map a system call such as open, > read,write, or close to your new system call? This api is not a system call at all. Its a new facility for use inside the kernel. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message