Re: Invoking a signal handler

This wasn't meant to be sent, not sure what the problem was. Please ignore this e-mail. Kostik had answered my question yesterday.  Thanks,-shrivatsan --- On  Tue, 2/9/10, Shrivats wrote: From: Shrivats Subject: Invoking a signal handler To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, Feb

Invoking a signal handler

Hi, I am trying to understanding how the kernel invokes a signal handler for a currently executing process, to deliver an asynchronous signal posted by another process. I was looking at the sendsig() function which saves the  ___ freebsd-hackers@free

Invoking a signal handler

Hi, I am trying to understand how the kernel invokes the signal handler for a process, to deliver an asynchronous signal posted by another process. I was looking at the sendsig() function which saves the current user context. My question is, when and how does the transition from the kernel mo

Re: Question regarding memory disks

Thanks a lot for the response.  --- On Wed, 1/6/10, Julian Elischer wrote: From: Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Question regarding memory disks To: "Pieter de Goeje" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "shrivatsan" Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:27 PM Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Wednesday 06

Question regarding memory disks

Hi hackers, I have configured a malloc-backed memory disk, and I mount the device on to the file system. I write some data onto the file system. I see that the free memory indicated by kmem_map_free goes down, and this is proportional to the size of the data written. However, even after removing