Re: term & user space console

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:52:30PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> I think this is a very good strategy.  Mach RPCs can be split into
> asynchronous IPC calls, but this is not true of most RPC systems that
> we might want to port to.  So it's ok to take advantage of the Mach
> semantics in Mach-specific code (like devio.c).  But in generic code
> (like your hurdio.c) we should avoid Machisms where possible.
> 
> The Right Thing is surely two separate threads.

Do I use a third thread for assert_dtr?  If I need to assert the dtr, the
only strategy I can think of is to open in blocking mode.  However, if I use
synchronous RPC, this is better done in a seperate thread.  I don't know how
to assert the dtr otherwise.

Thanks,
Marcus

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