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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc: davem@redhat.com (David S. Miller),
	shirsch@adelphia.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptec AIC7XXX v 6.0.6 BETA Released
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 10:18:49 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E146VTQ-00045T-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200012140457.eBE4vNs43248@aslan.scsiguy.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Dec 13, 2000 09:57:23 PM

> 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...

I see and I assume calling a random collection of data

	u.something

in BSD was even more logical  8)

current is a completely rational name. The problem with current on some of
our ports right now is that its a #define. That is a trap for the unwary and
one day wants fixing.

curproc would be incorrect for linux since its the current task, and a task and
unix process are not the same thing

Alan





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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-14 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-13 22:15 Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14  1:31 ` Steven N. Hirsch
2000-12-14  3:56   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14  4:22     ` David S. Miller
2000-12-14  4:57       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 10:18         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2000-12-14 14:03           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 15:53             ` Martin Dalecki
2000-12-14 15:10               ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 16:15                 ` Martin Dalecki
2000-12-14 17:56             ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 19:26         ` Gérard Roudier
2000-12-14 10:14     ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 13:59       ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 15:03         ` Steven N. Hirsch
2000-12-14 15:07           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 17:03             ` Matthew Jacob
2000-12-14 17:54         ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 18:02           ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 18:38             ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 18:05         ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 17:45       ` Andi Kleen
2000-12-14 18:35         ` Alan Cox
2000-12-14 12:26     ` Steven N. Hirsch
2000-12-14 10:22 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-12-14 13:45   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-14 14:13     ` J . A . Magallon
2000-12-14 15:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-12-14 16:24   ` Justin T. Gibbs
2000-12-30 16:31 ` Steven N. Hirsch

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