Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 08:09:19 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include atomic.h Message-ID: <66596.1002607759@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2001 21:34:36 PDT." <200110090434.f994Yam09790@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <200110090434.f994Yam09790@earth.backplane.com>, Matt Dillon writes: > I don't think it's a good idea to expose the atomic_*() ops or any other > SMP mechanisms in the kernel to userland. If we are going to be serious about threads, we need to expose some kind of atomic ops to userland. I can't see why they could not be the same as we use in the kernel... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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