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Re: Networking Timers

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:50:26PM -0500, Chuck Winters wrote:

> Where can I find a list of the kernel functions which sleep?

there isn't one afaik, you just do it by folklore, reading code etc.

Sleepable[1] functions are often ones which access user-space memory and the like

regards
john

[1] pedants may argue this is incorrect terminology for a function that may
cause the process invoking it to sleep, but I refer them to their earlier brethren
who insisted upon "laugh-at-able" instead of "laughable" and similar

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