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Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 01:39:20 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc: Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc
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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [020105 23:36] wrote:
> > Is there a reason that getcontext and setcontext need to be
> > system calls?
> 
> Atomicity?

To flush register windows on setcontext() on SPARC.

-- Terry

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