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To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC 
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:58:40 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
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>I wouldn't want to set anything that tells the kernel not to switch
>the process (or KSE).  That shouldn't be allowed from userland, at
>least without proper permissions.

It doesn't tell it not to switch to any other KSE, but rather
not to switch to another KSE within the same "process" (process
group?  I don't know the correct terminology).  I don't see
why this would be a security problem.  Of course, this would
only be available for UP, i386 configurations.

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Justin


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