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Re: System call and preemption...

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Siddharth Choudhuri wrote:

> sys_write()
> {
>   if (some_condition)
>        reschedule the process at a later time (preempt)
>    else
>      do whatever write does 
> } 
> The problem is when I'm checking the condition, I'm in kernel mode, so
> how do I preempt the process that called write. Also, how do I access

Do you mean something like

if (some_condition) schedule();
/* ... continue */

?

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JiKos.


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