[49] in NetBSD-Development
Re: progress on AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Jul 28 22:56:45 1994
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 22:56:11 -0400
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@MIT.EDU>
To: Christopher Provenzano <proven@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>, proven@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Christopher Provenzano's message of Thu, 28 Jul 1994 17:17:52 EDT,
<9407282117.AA18653@yaz-pistachio.MIT.EDU>
The current AFS implementation requires non-preemptive threads.
If you run it over a preemptive threads package, it will fail in
strange and marvellous ways, because some locks you'd need in a
preemptive environment Just Aren't There..
- Bill
