Re: Access thread stack from another thread

2010-06-05 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:34, Group wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you said. Is there any code related > to this available in kernel or any other source? as It would be more helpful > to understand this concept. To the best (in my getting rusty) knowledge, accessing other threa

Re: Access thread stack from another thread

2010-06-05 Thread Group
Thanks for your reply. I agree with what you said. Is there any code related to this available in kernel or any other source? as It would be more helpful to understand this concept. On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Vimal wrote: > On 4 June 2010 17:16, Group wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, based on the feedback today, i'm going to go back to the drawing board and try again. i already have an idea of how to do this differently but i'll ponder it for a while first. i'll probably make an alternate suggestion tomorrow and people will either think it's a good idea or not but i pr

Re: Access thread stack from another thread

2010-06-05 Thread Joel Fernandes
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote: > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Vimal wrote: >> On 4 June 2010 17:16, Group wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to access threads stack (not shared) from another thread? >>> I have seen an API which gets the attributes for the stack >>>

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Carlo Caione
On Jun 5, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Joel Fernandes wrote: > sorry, but that's just not going to happen. ever. if the general impression here is that, for a donation of five bucks, you expect to get unfettered access to my personal attention

Re: I/O and memory barriers

2010-06-05 Thread Pei Lin
2010/5/31 luca ellero : > Pei Lin wrote: >> >> 2010/5/17 luca ellero : >> >>> >>> Hi list, >>> I have some (maybe stupid) questions which I can't answer even after >>> reading >>> lots of documentation. >>> Suppose I have a PCI device which has some I/O registers mapped to memory >>> (here I mean a

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Joel Fernandes
>>  sorry, but that's just not going to happen.  ever.  if the general >> impression here is that, for a donation of five bucks, you expect to >> get unfettered access to my personal attention, then we have massively >> different views of how the world works. > > Well, 5 bucks was just an example.

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Carlo Caione
On Jun 5, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > whoa, whoa, whoa ... that's going *way* beyond what i was > suggesting. i was proposing that i could produce and provide > well-written kernel programming docs online, write new content on a > reasonably regular basis and make sure i kept al

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Carlo Caione wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > i was reluctant to post the following since it's definitely going > > to sound self-serving but it's an idea i've been thinking about > > for a while. > > > > how many people would be willi

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Carlo Caione
On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i was reluctant to post the following since it's definitely going to > sound self-serving but it's an idea i've been thinking about for a > while. > > how many people would be willing to spend, say, 5 dollars for a > decently-written on

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Joel Fernandes wrote: > Hi Robert, > > If you are sure about constantly adding new material etc, then I > think a good idea would be to turn it into a subscription based > service at $3 / month or something (too less?), something like LWN. > I know I would signup for something

Re: would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Joel Fernandes
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote: > Hi Robert, > > If you are sure about constantly adding new material etc, then I think > a good idea would be to turn it into a subscription based service at > $3 / month or something (too less?), something like LWN. I know I > would signup fo

would people be willing to spend a few dollars for beginner docs?

2010-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i was reluctant to post the following since it's definitely going to sound self-serving but it's an idea i've been thinking about for a while. how many people would be willing to spend, say, 5 dollars for a decently-written online booklet that introduces someone to the field of kernel program

Re: upcoming linux books

2010-06-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Mulyadi Santosa wrote: > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 19:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > i mention them as i was one of the pre-pub technical reviewers on > > that first book, and i am the technical editor of the second one. > > Great (again). May I (and maybe some of