Re: [osol-code] unwinding an exception frame

2009-01-14 Thread D.
I hope to have something ready to release before the end of the year, maybe a sleepycat license. I got a rudimentary shell thread working, so I began thinking that it would be nice if the shell didn't have any built-in commands, but could just call functions in the "os" or the "application," and

Re: [osol-code] unwinding an exception frame

2009-01-13 Thread James Carlson
D. writes: > >Why are you doing this? Don't the existing threads provide a much > more robust and better-performing solution? It sounds like you're > recreating the old Solaris 8 two-level thread library, which we > intentionally removed seven years ago because it's an inferior > solution (PSARC 20

Re: [osol-code] unwinding an exception frame

2009-01-13 Thread D.
>Why are you doing this? Don't the existing threads provide a much more robust and better-performing solution? It sounds like you're recreating the old Solaris 8 two-level thread library, which we intentionally removed seven years ago because it's an inferior solution (PSARC 2001/287). I am not tr

Re: [osol-code] unwinding an exception frame

2009-01-13 Thread James Carlson
D. writes: > So I wrote a user threads lib. The threads run in a Solaris process. Signals > occur on the stack of whatever thread is currently executing. I get signals, > like SIGINT, etc., and can let them unwind naturally. But I thought that I'd > like to unwind the exception from within the e

[osol-code] unwinding an exception frame

2009-01-12 Thread D.
So I wrote a user threads lib. The threads run in a Solaris process. Signals occur on the stack of whatever thread is currently executing. I get signals, like SIGINT, etc., and can let them unwind naturally. But I thought that I'd like to unwind the exception from within the exception handler, i