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On Friday, 28 September 2001 at 10:12:14 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Gersh wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Bernd Walter wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 07:03:51PM +0530, Anjali Kulkarni wrote: >>>> Does anyone know whether it is advisable or not to use >>>> setjmp/longjmp within kernel code? I could not see any >>>> setjmp/longjmp in kernel source code. Is there a good reason for >>>> this or can it be used? >>> >>> You need to look again, it's used in several places in the kernel. >> >> Look at sys/i386/i386/db_interface.c > > Yeah but it would probably be a pretty bad idea to use it without > very careful thought. Especialy with the kernel becoming > pre-emptable in the future.. Can you think of a scenario where it wouldn't work? Preemption doesn't tear stacks apart, right? Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
