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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: KNOTE()
From:       Daniel Eischen <eischen () vigrid ! com>
Date:       2001-07-29 23:38:45
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> > Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > Why are you trying to push so much into the kernel?
> > > Rethink the problem you are trying to solve.
> > 
> > See his other posting; he's living inside the constraints
> > of an existing library and API.
> 
> Yes, except these are problems of his own making because the library
> and API were originally user-mode code and not in the kernel.  Somewhere
> along the way a decision was made to push that function into the kernel,
> and all these bizzaro "problems" of calling back user-mode code from
> the kernel, etc. follow from that decision.

Yeah, exactly.  FWIW, I think he really wants timer_create() and
friends.

-- 
Dan Eischen

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