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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:21:15 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        fsmp@FreeBSD.ORG (Steve Passe)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c
Message-ID:  <199708120451.OAA05899@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199708072122.OAA00806@freefall.freebsd.org> from Steve Passe at "Aug 7, 97 02:22:33 pm"

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Steve Passe stands accused of saying:
> fsmp        1997/08/07 14:22:33 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             init_main.c 
>   Log:
>   Fixes kern/3835: SMP kernel crash on enable "dumps on wd0"
>   
>    - SMP: set value of curproc in main(), before the SYSINIT stuff 

If I read this correctly, this means that nothing hung off a SYSINIT()
macro needs to worry about curproc being invalid, ie. one can
explicitly expect curproc to be useful for subsystem locking etc. at a
very early stage?

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