Subject: Re: Asynchronous I/O
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Mindaugas R. <rmind@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/25/2007 05:36:28
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, if the implementation uses an additional thread in
> the user process, why is any kernel support required at all?
It is a LWP (with a high priority). Saying "user", I meant that it is not a
child of proc0 (in such case it would be a kthread). In future, we will
probably want to flag it as LW_SYSTEM, but that needs many changes.
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Best regards,
Mindaugas
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