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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch sets to date and timing tests with Giant out of userret.
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:> 
:> because td->td_ucred is read-only for it's whole existance.
:
:???
:
:Are you sure that td->td_ucred can't change in the middle,
:to point to a different ucred, as a result of kernel
:preemption?
:
:-- Terry

    I don't think that's possible though it might bring up a potential
    issue in the interrupt-thread-borrowing code.  The ucred design is
    very clean.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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