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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cur{thread/proc}, or not.
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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Date: 15 Nov 2001 20:52:19 +0100
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Err, no.  curthread doesn't even have a lock.  Look at sys/proc.h.  There are
> some fields we don't use any locks on, because we assume that only curthread
> messes with its own copy, or some such.

Hmm, then you need to lock the entire process, don't you?

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