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Date:      Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:29:51 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Removing kernel thread stack swapping
Message-ID:  <42279DEF.2030901@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050303165825.GB4737@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <20050303074242.GA14699@VARK.MIT.EDU> <200503030954.08271.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050303165825.GB4737@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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Brooks Davis wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:54:07AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>  
>
>>Hence, don't kill this whole feature just because someone is too lazy
>>to fix a bug.
>>    
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>
>It would be very useful and informative if someone were to write a
>high level description of the ways in which the kernel is not a POSIX C
>programming environment. 
>
when you are importing a POSIX C programmed piece of code into kernel,
this will be a problem, I always think problem from another side, not just
stand at my side. :)

> In addition to providing somewhere to point
>people who wonder why -lbigcomplicatedlibrary doesn't work with their
>kernel source, such a list would force us to enumerate those differences
>and make sure they are based on design decisions that make sense.
>
>-- Brooks
>
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