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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 00:37:37 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding SO_NOSIGPIPE to -STABLE/-CURRENT
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> Whoa, whoa whoa.... :)
> 
> Since when does Terry have any input as to what the project is
> doing and where it is going?

Ditto.

If I were Project Dictator, then the next generation threads would
be implemented with an async call gate, not scheduler activations.
Instead, it uses activations to avoid changing the ABI, even though
the current plan is to add a new call gate in 5.x for the 64 bit
switchover, which is exactly the sort of ABI change that the use of
scheduler activations was trying to avoid.  IMO, if it's a new call
gate, it may as well be async... and magically solve a lot of the
hard problems that activations introduced.

-- Terry

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