Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:08:35 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel Thread scheduler
Message-ID:  <20011122140835.A96598@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111221353230.44466-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:58:08PM -0800
References:  <200111221142.fAMBgvh11425@mass.dis.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111221353230.44466-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:58:08PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> This is a valid point.. should I change the name in the next round a bit?
> and if so what to? I don't really want "k_thread", any more than I would
> think of changing proc to k_proc.. Theoretically a user program shouldn't
> even know about proc and thread.. what is there in proc.h that a 
> user program needs?
> 
> 

Certainly, a debugger would need to know about a process.
I suspect ps, ptrace, and a few others also need some
knowledge about struct proc.

I threw a #ifdef _KERNEL into <sys/proc.h> to see
what would happen.  The first problem is 

libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c -o kvm_getswapinfo.So
cc -O -pipe  -DLIBC_SCCS -I/usr/src/lib/libkvm -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include  -c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c -o kvm_proc.o
cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe  -DLIBC_SCCS -I/usr/src/lib/libkvm -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include  -c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c -o kvm_proc.So
/usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c: In function `kvm_proclist':
/usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:120: storage size of `proc' isn't known
/usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:121: storage size of `pproc' isn't known
/usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c: In function `kvm_proclist':
/usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:120: storage size of `proc' isn't known
/usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:121: storage size of `pproc' isn't known

-- 
Steve

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011122140835.A96598>