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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).





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