Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:23:38 +0930 (CST) From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Cc: eischen@vigrid.com, newton@internode.com.au, dick@tar.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com, peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au Subject: Re: flock + kernel threads bug Message-ID: <199904222353.JAA78068@gizmo.internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199904222326.TAA21462@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from "Daniel Eischen" at Apr 22, 99 07:26:54 pm
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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> Mark Newton wrote:
> > > You still have thread IDs in userland, but you now add:
> > > _lwp_kill, _lwp_setschedparam, etc,
> > > system calls to control the kernel threads. Or maybe one big
> > > _lwp_control...
> >
> > If you make the BSD API the same as the SysVR4 API it'll make emulating
> > it really easy :-)
[ list of SysVR4 syscalls deleted ]
> Seems like a good idea to me. But are these all system calls, or are some
> library routines? Having lwp_self be a system call doesn't seem optimal.
They're all syscalls (or, at least, they all have syscall numbers
reserved for them).
- mark
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