From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 12:02:52 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA26098 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:02:52 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA26091 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:02:45 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA12096; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:01:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 15:01:25 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9501272001.AA12096@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Help with SCSI development (fwd) In-Reply-To: <9501271726.AA29338@cs.weber.edu> References: <199501271539.KAA08510@hda.com> <9501271726.AA29338@cs.weber.edu> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant