Somebody knows who added a field to task_struck? Who to know, please, sends me the e-mail of him. Eduardo O Bode --- Eduardo Rodrigues <little_bode@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > --- 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/ > _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 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/
