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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:44:17 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: Breaking news: FreeBSD is "considering implementing a preemptible kernel"
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Robert Love is writing a patch to make the Linux kernel preemptible,
> and has some interesting ideas about FreeBSD:
>=20
> http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=3D328&mode=3Dthread&order=3D0

AFAIK the FreeBSD 5.0 kernel is not fully preemptible either.  jhb
was/is working on it but was having problems with stability.

Kris

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