From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 19 01:21:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A21516A418; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:21:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A16E13C46E; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:21:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E33B4750C; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:04:34 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80376-07; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:04:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from fserv.hub.org (blk-89-241-126.eastlink.ca [24.89.241.126]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93F8B47248; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:04:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by fserv.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D82E6330; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:04:46 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:04:20 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Daniel Eischen , Robert Watson Message-ID: <250D8A54B98F12158C71D8FE@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200708160526.l7G5Qg0b008022@repoman.freebsd.org> <46C4FD02.3090708@freebsd.org> <200708182118.37998.tijl@ulyssis.org> <20070818204223.D1234@fledge.watson.org> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: wine-freebsd@hub.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, David Xu , Tijl Coosemans , Xin LI Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thr.c syscalls.master src/sys/sys X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:21:40 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Saturday, August 18, 2007 20:51:57 -0400 Daniel Eischen wrote: > You can say that about a lot of APIs, but that doesn't mean we should add > them. This is a bit of a hack to satisfy one application (Wine) when there > are other (perhaps harder) ways to skin the cat. We certainly don't want > anything else using this API, so I'd advocate removing it. Stupid question, but ... why not? First off, do you know for a fact that Wine is the only app out there that needs the ability to kill off a thread in a seperate process, or has nobody in the past cared enough to see other apps ported from Linux -> FreeBSD to push for this sort of thing? - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGx5cU4QvfyHIvDvMRAnR/AKCZ2MpRWKxQ3WDtyp6l7W5GvToZ+ACcCbQI /LGG0jukEds5Lii82lhYdFs= =0wg7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----