From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 22 5:39:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792BF37B407 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:39:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15DQDR-000COc-00; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:39:13 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5MCdCr54397; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:39:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:39:12 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Mike Meyer Cc: Michael Lucas , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? Message-ID: <20010622133911.A53884@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20010621233210.A37804@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010622062238.A45123@blackhelicopters.org> <20010622114548.A51977@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15155.13183.377957.392221@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <15155.13183.377957.392221@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 07:01:03AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | For the v6 kernel, this is in C code. I never went looking for it in | later code, so I don't know when it vanished. I'm sorry, but what is v6? | The comment in question is a couple of paragraphs, followed by that | seven-word note. If I remember correctly - my copy of Lyons being in | storage - the code was the context-switching code, and what was being | explained was the mechanism that was used to start the first process, | which involved very machine-dependent work so that that code would do | the job. Is this code gone, then? Which source files contain this routine in FreeBSD now? Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message