Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:41:59 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, y-carden@uniandes.edu.co, jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KNOTE() Message-ID: <200107292041.f6TKfxn41502@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:00:50 PDT." <3B646B72.813A46DC@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010727195404.21885A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <3B646B72.813A46DC@mindspring.com>
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> 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. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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