From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 14 15:20:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from acampi.inet.it (acampi.inet.it [213.92.4.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33F3737B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:20:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrea@webcom.it) Received: (qmail 2013 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2001 00:20:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webcom.it) (212.239.10.243) by acampi.inet.it with SMTP; 15 Mar 2001 00:20:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 2311 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Mar 2001 23:17:32 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:17:32 +0100 From: Andrea Campi To: Tony Finch Cc: Garrett Wollman , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvscommit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c]) Message-ID: <20010315001732.B552@webcom.it> References: <20010313121002.F59348@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3794.984471257@critter> <20010313104930.C60817@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010313133108S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3AAEA353.B31800B5@originative.co.uk> <20010314104739.A50356@gurney.reilly.home> <20010314104739.A50356@gurney.reilly.home> <200103140142.UAA42549@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010314020407.Y412@hand.dotat.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010314020407.Y412@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:04:07AM +0000 X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:04:07AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > >For example, no commercial (in the sense of non-toy) operating system > >has made a serious stab at doing non-blocking synchronization. > > What does that mean in terms of simpler concepts? It sounds like a > contradiction in terms to me... I'm trying to get more people in the company I work for, a BT subsidiary, to install and use FreeBSD. Problem is, the CTO is a great AIX fan, and is always touting the preemptive kernel of Mach based architectures. Anybody care to give me pointers, by private mail, on what arguments we have against that? ;) -- The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message