From owner-freebsd-arch Mon May 15 1:15:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2202F37B723 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 01:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12rG25-000Kfe-0K; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:15:22 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA38043; Mon, 15 May 2000 09:19:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:19:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Bruce Evans Cc: Amancio Hasty , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 May 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Sun, 14 May 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 May 2000, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > > Hi Doug! > > > > > > Great idea!! > > > > > > Say, how you thought of how to to map a system call such as open, > > > read,write, or close to your new system call? > > > > 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... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message