Re: messaging questions...

[David Leimbach <leimy2k@xxxxxxx>]

On Nov 27, 2003, at 1:50 PM, Hiten Pandya wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > :Cool.... So I have been gleefully digging through the thread code as 
> > it :seems important to
> > :understand that before trying to message a thread :)...  I noticed 
> > the :kernel has a way to get
> > :the current thread very easily via some macros and functions.
> > :
> > :Is there any way a user can just find out what his current thread 
> > is?  :I presume every process
> > :has at least 1 of these things or a lot of what I am reading in the 
> > :kernel doesn't look like it
> > :would work very well.
> > :
> > :Dave
> >      Each user process has only one kernel thread.  That is, DFly is 
> > not     organized like the KSE model in FreeBSD-5.  DFly's 
> > organization
> >     is very simple by comparison because the intention with DFly is
> >     to have to userland manage userland threads entirely within
> >     userland.
> >     If that makes any sense :-)
>
> 	And also, a thread can be standalone and not linked to a
> 	process.  Watch out for this one David, it bites the ass
> 	very badly. :-)

Cool.. thanks for the head's up.

> 	--
> 	Hiten Pandya (hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)