From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 17 10: 5:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C5637B718; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:05:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2HI5k130211; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:05:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: John Baldwin , Matthew Jacob , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man pages In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:03:26 MST." <200103171803.f2HI3Q945895@harmony.village.org> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:05:45 +0100 Message-ID: <30209.984852345@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200103171803.f2HI3Q945895@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >Just wanted to show >an example that needed it, not for syncronization, but to assume total >control of the CPU and to make everyone else wait while I do my >semi-time critical hardware frobbing. I agree, there are lots of applications where it is a must to be able to do that, and we can either provide a civilized API for it or suffer all the weird hacks people will implement themselves... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message