Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:04:20 -0300 From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: wine-freebsd@hub.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thr.c syscalls.master src/sys/sys Message-ID: <250D8A54B98F12158C71D8FE@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708182050070.13363@sea.ntplx.net> References: <200708160526.l7G5Qg0b008022@repoman.freebsd.org> <46C4FD02.3090708@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708162216530.1396@sea.ntplx.net> <200708182118.37998.tijl@ulyssis.org> <20070818204223.D1234@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708182050070.13363@sea.ntplx.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - --On Saturday, August 18, 2007 20:51:57 -0400 Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> wrote: > You can say that about a lot of APIs, but that doesn't mean we should add > them. This is a bit of a hack to satisfy one application (Wine) when there > are other (perhaps harder) ways to skin the cat. We certainly don't want > anything else using this API, so I'd advocate removing it. Stupid question, but ... why not? First off, do you know for a fact that Wine is the only app out there that needs the ability to kill off a thread in a seperate process, or has nobody in the past cared enough to see other apps ported from Linux -> FreeBSD to push for this sort of thing? - ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGx5cU4QvfyHIvDvMRAnR/AKCZ2MpRWKxQ3WDtyp6l7W5GvToZ+ACcCbQI /LGG0jukEds5Lii82lhYdFs= =0wg7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?250D8A54B98F12158C71D8FE>