From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 25 1:18:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E76C637B40B for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 29908 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2001 08:18:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Oct 2001 08:18:36 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200110250803.f9P83So32210@bugz.infotecs.ru> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:18:34 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Eugene L. Vorokov" Subject: RE: kernel threads Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Oct-01 Eugene L. Vorokov wrote: > Hello, > > does FreeBSD currently have something similar to linux's kernel_thread() ? > Or is it what KSE intends to implement ? Can I somehow run "independent" > kernel thread, which will, for instance, check some flag that I set inside > interrupt handler and do some job that can't be done in the interrupt ? man kthread (On -current.. a somewhat similar interface exists in -stable.) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message