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.
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Dan Eischen
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