From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 11 14:53: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C3B37B41A for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 14:52:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fABMqfB16719; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:52:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 17:52:40 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cur{thread/proc}, or not. In-Reply-To: <20011111224919.B24623807@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > I believe it would be a lot easier to remove the p/td arguments later > once we know that we dont need them, than to remove them now and > discover later that we do need them and have to go back and figure it > all out again. > > To answer Robert.. By all means be explicit about creds etc, but lets > not get two different bikesheds^H^H^H^H^H^Hchanges mixed up together. Well, my concern was really whether or not I should go ahead and commit the if_ioctl changes to add a td argument, which scatter new thread references all over the place, when adopting a 'curthread' philosophy would make that a waste of time. I'll post the patches, once I've merged in some recent changes, on Monday. To be honest, I don't really mind either way, I was just interested in getting a sense of the arguments {for, against} moving to curthread/curproc. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message