From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 29 16:39:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1FBE37B401; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id TAA28466; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:38:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, y-carden@uniandes.edu.co, jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KNOTE() In-Reply-To: <200107292041.f6TKfxn41502@whizzo.transsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel? > > > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve. > > > > See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints > > of an existing library and API. > > Yes, except these are problems of his own making because the library > and API were originally user-mode code and not in the kernel. Somewhere > along the way a decision was made to push that function into the kernel, > and all these bizzaro "problems" of calling back user-mode code from > the kernel, etc. follow from that decision. Yeah, exactly. FWIW, I think he really wants timer_create() and friends. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message