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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 22:58:56 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        "Daniel J. O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "restricted" kernel threads implementation from NetBSD via n 
Message-ID:  <199906290458.WAA19339@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:41:33 %2B0930." <XFMail.990628173909.darius@dons.net.au> 
References:  <XFMail.990628173909.darius@dons.net.au>  

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In message <XFMail.990628173909.darius@dons.net.au> "Daniel
J. O'Connor" writes:
: I don't suppose someone could post an explanation of how kernel threads work
: could they? :)

In a nutshell, it appears to basically do an rfork.  It then becomes
like any other process that is interrupted in the kernel...

Warner


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