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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:15:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, roell@blah.a.isar.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org, roell@xinside.com
Subject:   Re: The F_SETOWN problem..
Message-ID:  <199604091715.KAA05209@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604090527.WAA05609@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Apr 8, 96 10:27:52 pm

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>  > If the events still queued to process quantum, that would be a
>  > different matter, but then what about user space reentry, specifically
>  > AST stacks when multiple AST's fire before a single AST can finish
>  > processing?
> 
> Yeah, what about it ??

You will need a sperate stack space for each firing AST.  Just like
you need a seperate signal stack.

But since AST's *are* events, they do not have to fire in order; they
may interrupt each other.  Unlike signals.

Adding AST's would not be as easy as, for instance, replacing the
environment space with logical name support.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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