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Re: Wait Queues

Dinesh Ahuja wrote:

> I understood that sleep call using sys_nanosleep system call but why
> doe we need to have memory mapping

Shared libraries are loaded into your address address using mmap().
Even a 5-line program that just calls sleep() uses the shared libraries.
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