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Date:      Tue, 09 Apr 1996 22:48:19 -0700
From:      "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        wong@rogerswave.ca (Wong), roell@blah.a.isar.de, hackers@freebsd.org, roell@xinside.com
Subject:   Re: The F_SETOWN problem.. 
Message-ID:  <199604100548.WAA02746@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Apr 1996 18:26:11 PDT." <199604100126.SAA06479@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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>>> Terry Lambert said:
 > > > Adding AST's would not be as easy as, for instance, replacing the
 > > > environment space with logical name support.
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > yeah, you need kernel support for this. each AST is like a letter
 > > to the process. kernel has to allocate/de-allocate such a "letter"
 > > dynamically.
 > > 
 > > If we can implement that, we are not far from real time unix.
 > 
 > AST's are easy.  It's the stacks they need to run while your program
 > is already using your only stack that are annoying.
 > 
 > Queued event delivery shouldn't have any impact on how RT the system
 > is or isn't (maybe I just can't see what you mean...).  Message
 > passing does not a R.T. system make, in my book...
 
However, we at least will need a mechanism to deliver asynchronous 
events;thus, one step closer to R.T. system 8)

	Cheers,
	Amancio





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