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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:01:25 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Help with SCSI development (fwd)
Message-ID:  <9501272001.AA12096@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9501271726.AA29338@cs.weber.edu>
References:  <199501271539.KAA08510@hda.com> <9501271726.AA29338@cs.weber.edu>

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<<On Fri, 27 Jan 95 10:26:52 MST, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) said:

> In effect, the NFS nfsd and biod processes, which make system calls and
> never return, as well as the swapper and update daemons, are in effect
> kernel threads, albiet threads with a proc structure attached to them
> for no good reason.

UTSL.  `nfssvc' does return for `nfsd' to perform authentication.

-GAWollman

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