Re: [9fans] A heartfelt thanks... :-)

[Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>]

Ciao Giacomo,

Why did you choose to create devself? Everything it does seems
better suited to devproc. If I was going that route, I'd instead
create a QTDIR file in devproc called #p/self that is just another
view into #p/$pid. Then brk and chdir would be control messages
written to #p/self/ctl. Same with seg^(attach detach free). You
could also make those be control messages written to #p/self/segment
instead.

Also, I think it's a mistake to overload the return value of the
remove system call for passing arbitrary integers out of the kernel.
I understand why you want something like that, however. Moving
system calls into reads and writes of various files increases the
number of context switches since you have to open and close the
files. Why not do exactly what you want and make a new system
called readint or something?

Oh, and where are the man pages? /doc/hacking is missing. I'm
interested in reading about your awake system call and the changes
you've made to rendezvous and the variuos locks in libc.

Cheers,
  Anthony