Re: Documentation

[John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 02:44:44PM -0500, Aluminum Foil Ball wrote:

> I find myself needing to know really basic stuff such as what is
> required of functions such as (but by no means limited to) copy_thread,
> dump_thread, get_wchan, etc.
> What they are required to do, what is and needs to be on the stack,
> where did current->tss go, etc.
> Is there doco on stuff of this level?  I have not found adequate
> comments in the source, and searching the web doesn't yield much of use.

there are no real docs available for this sort of thing, afaik.

You can help out by writing it as you work it out yourself :)

regards
john

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