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On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > The attraction is that the kernel abstractions are very nice. > > Much of the POSIX API sucks ass. The kernel stuff is NOT crap. > > > > Here we have a full-featured set of atomic ops, > > which are not atomic actually in userspace (hint: most apps don't have > CONFIG_SMP set) Atomic ops for some architectures / configuration won't even work at al in userspace because they're implemented by disabling interrupts. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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