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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:17:21 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc
Message-ID:  <15417.58929.834861.844289@caddis.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C37E559.B011DF29@vigrid.com>
References:  <3C37E559.B011DF29@vigrid.com>

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Dan Eischen writes:
> I've got getcontext, setcontext, makecontext, and swapcontext
> implemented and would like to add them to libc.

> Is there a reason that getcontext and setcontext need to be
> system calls?

If I understand correctly, for Solaris it was getting the kernel context
when all threads were kernel threads, hence the need to be a system
call.


Nate

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