Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode

Jeff Dike
2002-08-06T12:47:29Z

us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de said:
> It will let the incoming process take over ownership of the socket,
> which is probably what you mean and what you currently use.

Yup.

> On iret it would have to change ownership of the socket to another
> task, i.e. process with kernel_pid wants to set task_pid as the owner
> of the socket. The above code fragment doesn't permit this, as far as
> I can see.

Why not? There is nothing there that prevents that.

Jeff