Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 19:38:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, y-carden@uniandes.edu.co, jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KNOTE() Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010729193746.28148A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200107292041.f6TKfxn41502@whizzo.transsys.com>
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel? > > > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve. > > > > See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints > > of an existing library and API. > > Yes, except these are problems of his own making because the library > and API were originally user-mode code and not in the kernel. Somewhere > along the way a decision was made to push that function into the kernel, > and all these bizzaro "problems" of calling back user-mode code from > the kernel, etc. follow from that decision. Yeah, exactly. FWIW, I think he really wants timer_create() and friends. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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