From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 10 14:45:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D015437B400 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:45:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 9B4ED10DDF7; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:45:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:45:11 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kelly Yancey Cc: Nate Williams , Terry Lambert , Daniel Eischen , Dan Eischen , Peter Wemm , Archie Cobbs , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <20020110144511.O7984@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020110135324.N7984@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from kbyanc@posi.net on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:20:45PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Kelly Yancey [020110 14:21] wrote: > Of course, all this moot if userland context switches can be done properly > without entering the kernel and in a way the preserves flexibility. You are not paying attention. We understand the problems of requiring a syscall, and the discussion was to see if there was a way around it. Please focus on a solution rather than complaining about a well understood problem. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message