--- Pichai Raghavan <ragh_avan@rediffmail.com> wrote: > > Why cannot a generic void pointer be put in the task > structure so that any one get to his private > structure using this pointer? It is a good ideia, but how to include the void pointer? I added a integer (it has the same size of void pointer) in the task_struct (in the end) and I created two syscalls, one to set the value of the integer of current process (set_i) and other to get the integer (get_i). It is wrong. get_i returns a different value from the one that set_i placed. Eduardo O Bode > I have seen this kind > of thing atleast in RTOSes where due to reentrancy > the library functions needs to make copies of > structures for every task; they simply hook pointer > to these structures into the task structure. This > makes things easy since u do not have to build > individual tables and these tables are available to > u readily when the task wakes up. > > My 2 cents > Raghav _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! GeoCities Tenha seu lugar na Web. Construa hoje mesmo sua home page no Yahoo! GeoCities. É fácil e grátis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
