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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: gibbs@caspian.plutotech.com, mjacob@feral.com
Subject: Re: Changing the semantics of splsoftclock()
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>>Why have splr semantics? That is, it raises to splsoftclock if current
>>priority is lower, else doesn't fiddle with it.

splsoftclock() has always had spllower() semantics, and its main users
(kern_clock.c and kern_time.c) depend on this.

FreeBSD has a precedent of not changing poor spl names because the change
would be confusing: splnet() should be named splsoftnet() and splimp()
should be named splnet() as in NetBSD.

Bruce


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