Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:28:15 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gibbs@caspian.plutotech.com, mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@plutotech.com, tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing the semantics of splsoftclock() Message-ID: <199906252228.IAA03303@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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