Re: Request for swapcontext and getcontext to be ported to our libc

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt Emmerton wrote:
> I've toyed with it a bit, but there are some issues I'm not sure how to
> solve (such as accessing curthread -- a kernel construct -- from userland).
> I would welcome discussion with the person who suggested it (corecode?).

In which way do you have to access curthread?  That's a kernel-only entity, I don't think you have to access that in userland.  Besides, if we take in the system call version, there is no need for a pure libc based version anymore.

cheers
 simon

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