Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 19:05:45 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man pages Message-ID: <30209.984852345@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:03:26 MST." <200103171803.f2HI3Q945895@harmony.village.org>
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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
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