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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 17:39:19 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty), arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A new api for asynchronous task execution
Message-ID:  <200005171739.KAA06300@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005150919120.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at May 15, 2000 09:19:50 AM

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> > > 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...

The 'p' stands for 'programming' or 'programmer', not 'program', so
I don't think it's an issue.

8-p.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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