From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 11 16:11:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA18607 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 May 1995 16:11:54 -0700 Received: from disperse.demon.co.uk (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA18595 for ; Thu, 11 May 1995 16:11:51 -0700 Received: from post.demon.co.uk by disperse.demon.co.uk id ab18414; 12 May 95 0:03 GMT-60:00 Received: from bagpuss.demon.co.uk by post.demon.co.uk id aa09672; 12 May 95 0:03 GMT-60:00 Received: (karl@localhost) by bagpuss.demon.co.uk (99.9/99.9) id UAA06883; Thu, 11 May 1995 20:33:54 +0100 From: Karl Strickland Message-Id: <199505111933.UAA06883@bagpuss.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: question on sun cds To: Terry Lambert Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 20:33:52 +0100 (BST) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505102352.AA27802@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 10, 95 05:52:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 603 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If you were trying to write a FS for a Solaris box instead, that'd be > a much bigger pain (it'd have to be kernel preeemption safe and Sun > did it the wrong way, IMO). > a bit off the subject, but still interesting - what did sun do wrong (in this instance :-) and whats the right way to do it (IYO)? Thanks -- ------------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Mailed using ELM on FreeBSD | Karl Strickland PGP 2.3a Public Key Available. | Internet: karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk |