From owner-freebsd-arch Wed May 17 10:39:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EA2937BC78 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA29678; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:39:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA4faa65; Wed May 17 10:39:32 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06300; Wed, 17 May 2000 10:39:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005171739.KAA06300@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 17:39:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at May 15, 2000 09:19:50 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > This api is not a system call at all. Its a new facility for use inside > > > the kernel. > > > > Doesn't the "a" in api stand for "application"? > > It does but I always felt that the meaning of the word "application" was > pretty loose... The 'p' stands for 'programming' or 'programmer', not 'program', so I don't think it's an issue. 8-p. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message