On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> I'm curious, how does the original paper on SA suggest handling this?
> Such a fundamental thing as handling page faults cannot have been ignored
> in the paper, can it?

Probably. It's been ignored up until now. :-) There's only a small window
of vulnerability.

> How does FreeBSD handle?  How does Sun handle it?

They don't have SA phreads. While Sun has LWPs, they dont have the sam
split scheduler that SA implementations have.

What OSF does is a better question. :-)

> Or is our SA implementation different enough that this problem only occurs
> in NetBSD?

As above, OSF/1 is the place to look.

Take care,

Bill