Fred K Ollinger on Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:00:44 +0100


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Re: cli (NOT!: Re: [PLUG] Debian specs?)


> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 02:06:43PM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > if you know your way around cli and etc.

> Wow. I've been spending too much time staring at various OS's i386
> kernel code. I parsed cli() there as the C function named for the
> IA32 instruction it wraps, which disables interrupts. (sti()
> reenables them.) :^>

Right. If you could hack the kernel then you are well on your way to being
a great debian user. :)

Oh, did you think I meant command line interface? You are giving me too
much credit here. :)

Fred


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