Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:25:46 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: "Daniel M. Eischen" <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Threads Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911202123310.6767-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199911210514.WAA13707@mt.sri.com>
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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Nate Williams wrote: > > New calls must be able to return and say > > "hey it's not me returnuing, but actually a new KSE, " > > Not only that, but you need a way for it to be 'aborted' out and have it > cleanup as it goes. I suspect that this will require re-writing a large > number of syscalls with threading in mind, and leaving the 'old' calls > in place will allow more flexibility as things change. > > I could envision the 'old' calls going away at some point as the new > calls get completely fleshed out and tested, to be replaced with simple > wrappers for the threaded calls. > Maybe in the libraries, but we will need to keep the old syscalls in the kernel effectively forever. (for old binaries) It's not much of a cost.. (look at linux emulation). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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