Re: On PATH_MAX

[ness]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:38 +0100, ness wrote:
>
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> > Why shouldn't the thread of execution and scheduling time be provided by 
> > the caller, too?
>
>
> Short answer: because then the provider could terminate the schedule
> while the thread was executing within a critical region within the
> server.
>
> Game Over.
Hm. This is a serious problem. But sth. makes me feel it would be nice 
to make the caller pay. But you're right, we want the caller to be 
allowed to remove the thread or no longer pay for the scheduling.
Just out of curiousity:
Do you think it is possible to fully make the caller pay? I see two 
ways: the one way is to design every server without such critical 
regions (what's impossible, IMHO), or the server would need some more 
promises... Maybye it was possible to grant the thread of execution and 
make sure the caller cannot stop paying within such a critical region...
*consfusing*
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