Re: [9fans] kproc() bug

2011-05-12 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu May 12 14:22:16 EDT 2011, fors...@terzarima.net wrote: > is at worst inefficient. the kproc doesn't, however, share memory with > the current proc, and i don't think it needs to do anything at all. > (even if memory were shared, a new process starts with an empty mmu state.) > the comment is

Re: [9fans] kproc() bug

2011-05-12 Thread Charles Forsyth
>it could (just for one example) have exited and been cleaned up >before p is dereferenced to set newtlb = 1. it wouldn't matter since processes aren't deallocated, and an extra newtlb is at worst inefficient. the kproc doesn't, however, share memory with the current proc, and i don't think it nee