OK, I've got the thing stabilized. All the regressions I was aware of, are fixed.
Some Q&As: Q: What does it do? A: Nothing but to allow to sleep inside dosemu code while the DOS code is still running (in another thread). Q: Any synchronization issues? A: Nope, cooperative threading is synchronous. Q: What is it useful for? A: The primary targets were fossil's wait for char, int16's wait for keypress, and do_call_back(). I wasn't looking for more; there are probably still the candidates available. And when moving bios.S parts to C code, this is a very handy capability. Q: So... only 3 users? A: Well but do_call_back() is used in a lot of places, so a lot of code now uses coopthreads indirectly. Q: Is it clean? A: It is clean because it is small (~11K of source), only uses libpcl for coroutines and hlt.c to communicate with DOS code. It is not clean because it has a few hooks in int.c; namely do_int(), do_int_from_hlt() and a few other funcs were changed with adding hooks. There is also an old do_call_back() code still available for vga.c's legacy modeswitching; it is largely irrelevant these days because of KMS, so I decided agains wasting my time on it. Overall I think it is fine. We have coopthreads_v1 to compare to. It was intended to be fully self-contained and ended up in an unmaintainable state. Adding a couple of hooks into int.c should not be a big deal when the benefit is such a simple and small implementation as mine certainly is. :) Q: Why did it took so many time and changes to get the thing to just work? A: Because there were too many bugs and assumption in dosemu code that I had to fix. Most of them were not directly related to coopthreads, just uncovered by it, and are already merged to master. I think not a single bug was found in coopth.c itself since the very first commit of it. Q: So, what are the plans? A: To start threatening people with merging the thing to master: caution advised! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Dosemu-devel mailing list Dosemu-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dosemu-devel
