Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:44:52 -0800 From: Jake Burkholder <jburkhol@home.com> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thr_sleep() and thr_wakeup() Message-ID: <20001202024452.84996BA7C@io.yi.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> of "Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:58:41 CST." <20001201185841.A899@holly.calldei.com>
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> On Friday, December 01, 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > Can we kill these syscalls? They are not used anywhere in the kernel and > > although they have wrapper functions in libc, no header contains prototypes for > > these wrappers. According to the CVS log they were originally brought in for > > POSIX threads and AIO, neither of which use this facility. Comments? > > Agreed. Also, this is UNIX International thread namespace > (thr_*). > Interesting. Ok, if these system calls are going to be removed the whole file may as well be removed, since then it would just have yield in it. John and I agree that kern_synch.c is probably as good a place as any for yield, but there may be a better place. Thoughts? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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