From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:38:57 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <381418fabd33474b4bdb5beb493d408c@felloff.net> References: <381418fabd33474b4bdb5beb493d408c@felloff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] What happened on lib9p? Topicbox-Message-UUID: da333b9e-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > i used this to make usb drivers multithreaded. usb devs can > be slow to respond or sometimes even hang. as the filesystem is > bound onto /dev, a hanging usb device would hang all walks > on /dev making the system unusable with a single threaded > implementation. srvrelease()/srvacquire() made these changes > trivial todo. cool! - erik