Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:10:57 -0600
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cur{thread/proc}, or not.
Message-ID: <20011114231057.K13393@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011115132945.C33267@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 01:29:45PM %2B1030
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If you want to see why curproc sucks then please investigate what
happens when you NDINIT a nameidata with another thread pointer
other than your own, then perform a vn_open. kablooey!
My recent addition of vn_open_cred and modification of nfs_lock.c
was to get around this badness of the API.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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