From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 1 18:44:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from io.yi.org (unknown [24.70.218.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE67F37B400; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from io.yi.org (localhost.gvcl1.bc.wave.home.com [127.0.0.1]) by io.yi.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84996BA7C; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:44:52 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: chris@calldei.com Cc: John Baldwin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thr_sleep() and thr_wakeup() In-Reply-To: Message from Chris Costello of "Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:58:41 CST." <20001201185841.A899@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:44:52 -0800 From: Jake Burkholder Message-Id: <20001202024452.84996BA7C@io.yi.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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