[lsb-discuss] Info: interfaces being removed in POSIX

[Jiri Dluhos]

On Friday 22 September 2006 16:52, Wichmann, Mats D spoke thusly:
> As a data point for those who aren't closely following
> the POSIX revision process, these items are currently
> scheduled for removal from the next revision, which
> would be out late 2007 or early 2008:
>
> getcontext, makecontext, setcontext, swapcontext

Hi,

please, do we (POSIX) have any alternatives for these functions if they should 
be deprecated? I think they are quite useful in some circumstances (for 
example implementing continuation-like things in virtual machines).

Best regards,

    Jiri Dluhos

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