From owner-cvs-all  Wed Jan 24  9:20:20 2001
Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org
Received: from mail.interware.hu (mail.interware.hu [195.70.32.130])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id AD0D637B401; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:19:53 -0800 (PST)
Received: from portonovo-15.budapest.interware.hu ([195.70.60.79] helo=elischer.org)
	by mail.interware.hu with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian))
	id 14LTaH-0007PK-00; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:19:50 +0100
Message-ID: <3A6F0EB2.212D9BC8@elischer.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 09:19:46 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386)
X-Accept-Language: en, hu
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
	cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/isofs/cd9660 cd9660_vfsops.c
References: <20010123163418.N26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
		<Pine.BSF.4.21.0101242229170.44683-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200101241547.KAA61320@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> <<On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:10:51 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:
> 
> > Unfortunately, most vfs and vnop interfaces including VFS_MOUNT() make
> > it unclear that p == curproc by pretending to support arbitrary p's.
> 
> I believe the intent was (and Kirk can correct me if I'm wrong) that
> curproc should one day be eliminated, and the `p' argument to many
> kernel functions would be the only MI way to access the process
> structure of the current process.  (Analogous to the way in which
> post-4.3 BSD removed `u' as an alias for the current process's user
> area.)  I don't think it was ever intended that these functions be
> able to operate on arbitrary (non-running) processes.

when the threading interface in impemented, many of these will become 
's' as they will point to KSEs rather than processes, (or even 'c' when they 
point to a context instead of a process.)

> 
> -GAWollman

-- 
      __--_|\  Julian Elischer
     /       \ julian@elischer.org
    (   OZ    ) World tour 2000
---> X_.---._/  from Perth, presently in:  Budapest
            v


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message