Re: Proposal for new syscalls: getrusagex and waitx

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:35 PM, David Laight wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:30:37PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> > It's already used by ioctls for plists.  Basically the kernel
> > allocates VM and
> > puts the dictionary in it returning the location and size.  User code
> > is responsible
> > munmap it after its done with it.
>
> That is trully horrid!

It is an implementation detail that is hidden from consumers of  
proplib.  I'd prefer it to be kept that way.

-- thorpej