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Re: Integrating securelevel and kauth(9)

From: Bill Studenmund (wrstudennetbsd.org)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2006 - 16:29:47 CST


On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:51:03PM +0200, Elad Efrat wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
>
> > There is a suggestion that this might involve a double process switch....
> > I worry about the performance costs of this, and the fact that callers
> > may not be in a position where sleeping is valid.
>
> I'll admit that I'm not sure where you see a possibility for a double
> process switch to happen so before I can comment on it you'll have to
> elaborate a bit more.

When I first read the proposal, I thought the "default listener" of the
original note was running in its own process context, thus you'd have to
context switch to it and then back again. I gather David read it the same
way.

A callback works much better. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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