Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:29:51 +0800 From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing kernel thread stack swapping Message-ID: <42279DEF.2030901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050303165825.GB4737@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050303074242.GA14699@VARK.MIT.EDU> <200503030954.08271.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050303165825.GB4737@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: >On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:54:07AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > >>Hence, don't kill this whole feature just because someone is too lazy >>to fix a bug. >> >> > >It would be very useful and informative if someone were to write a >high level description of the ways in which the kernel is not a POSIX C >programming environment. > when you are importing a POSIX C programmed piece of code into kernel, this will be a problem, I always think problem from another side, not just stand at my side. :) > In addition to providing somewhere to point >people who wonder why -lbigcomplicatedlibrary doesn't work with their >kernel source, such a list would force us to enumerate those differences >and make sure they are based on design decisions that make sense. > >-- Brooks > > >
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