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SubjectRe: current pointer question/suggestion
On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 11:57:48PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
> Date: 16 Jul 1998 06:45:22 GMT
>
> NOW, what is dangerous with it is that you must NEVER dereference
> pointers to automatic variables for another process... those
> variables simply will not exist in your new process context...
>
> Guess why other OS's don't implement wait-queues the way we do? ;-)
> Our scheme depends upon being able to reference data residing within
> the stack frame of any thread at any given time.
>

Can you explain this in a bit more detail? I'm really confused.

astor

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