Removing kernel thread stack swapping
David Xu
davidxu at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 3 15:29:53 PST 2005
Brooks Davis wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:54:07AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
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>>Hence, don't kill this whole feature just because someone is too lazy
>>to fix a bug.
>>
>>
>
>It would be very useful and informative if someone were to write a
>high level description of the ways in which the kernel is not a POSIX C
>programming environment.
>
when you are importing a POSIX C programmed piece of code into kernel,
this will be a problem, I always think problem from another side, not just
stand at my side. :)
> In addition to providing somewhere to point
>people who wonder why -lbigcomplicatedlibrary doesn't work with their
>kernel source, such a list would force us to enumerate those differences
>and make sure they are based on design decisions that make sense.
>
>-- Brooks
>
>
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