Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Adaptec AIC7XXX v 6.0.6 BETA Released | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:57:23 -0700 | From | "Justin T. Gibbs" <> |
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> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:56:08 -0700 > From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> > > None-the-less, it seems to me that spamming the kernel namespace > with "current" in at least the way that the 2.2 kernels do (does > this occur in later kernels?) should be corrected. > >Justin, "current" is a pointer to the current thread executing on the >current processor under Linux. It has existed since day one of the >Linux kernel and probably will exist till the end of it's life. > >I'm sure the BSD kernel has some similar bogosity :-)
BSD has curproc, but that is considerably less likely to be used in "inoccent code" than "current". I mean, "current what?". It could be anything, current privledges, current process, current thread, the current time...
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