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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:47:27 +0100
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> > what happens on MP systems?
> >
> not sure what you're driving at.

i do.  they have forgotten their lister and the old (now quick):

    s = splfoo();

    /* critical region */

    splx(s);

usually simplifies things, unlike the lunacy you have to code
on linix >= 2.2 -- i've coded it; it made me sick.