From owner-freebsd-arch Sun May 14 1:12:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (216-200-29-190.snj0.flashcom.net [216.200.29.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74C037B52B for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA46327; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:12:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <200005140812.BAA46327@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 May 2000 09:09:19 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:12:03 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 13 May 2000, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Hi Doug! > > > > Great idea!! > > > > Say, how you thought of how to to map a system call such as open, > > read,write, or close to your new system call? > > This api is not a system call at all. Its a new facility for use inside > the kernel. > I know that the API will be used by kernel routines such as device drivers;nevertheless, I think that the new kernel routine can be used to implement async system calls 8) Cheers -- Amancio Hasty hasty@rah.star-gate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message