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Date:      Mon, 08 Oct 2001 22:13:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include atomic.h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011008221354.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110090434.f994Yam09790@earth.backplane.com>

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On 09-Oct-01 Matt Dillon wrote:
>    I don't think it's a good idea to expose the atomic_*() ops or any other
>    SMP mechanisms in the kernel to userland.

This is an old, old patch that was asked for by Jason Evans for KSE since the
userland scheduler may need to use these.  If it doesn't use them, fine.

>                                               -Matt

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