From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 22 6:23:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AB3637B408 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 69105 invoked by uid 100); 22 Jun 2001 13:23:17 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15155.18117.503229.474582@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:23:17 -0500 To: j mckitrick Cc: Mike Meyer , Michael Lucas , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? In-Reply-To: <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> <20010622133911.A53884@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 j mckitrick types: > | 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? Unix v6, aka Sixth Edition. See for more information on how that fits into the history of Unix. > | 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? Looks like Nik already gave you pointers to both the source for the comment, and where that functionality appears to be now. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message