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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2002 01:39:20 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc
Message-ID:  <3C381B48.AADDCA2B@mindspring.com>
References:  <3C37E559.B011DF29@vigrid.com> <20020106032709.A82406@elvis.mu.org>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> [020105 23:36] wrote:
> > Is there a reason that getcontext and setcontext need to be
> > system calls?
> 
> Atomicity?

To flush register windows on setcontext() on SPARC.

-- Terry

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