RE: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

Waitaminute. I would think that the subroutines in the kernel can directly
access the current PROC structure...

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From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
Of Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:12 PM
To: Julian Reschke
Cc: MiNT mailing list
Subject: RE: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension


> I must admit that (not looking at the source) it is unclear to me why
> passing the basepage address of the current process actually is that
> expensive... It's in the PROC structure anyway, correct?

Of course. Retrievable by Fopen()/Fcntl()/Fclose() on /proc. Three system
calls.

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