On 7/4/06, Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ". What are the precautions you have > > to take while accessing the function from thread context . > > "Thou shalt not sleep!" How can this be true? Thread context (AFA I can understand, must mean Kernel thread context here) can sleep.
Oops ... sorry ... my mind and my fingers did not go well along with each other. Om is right. I think by thread context you mean process context. And if you can call a function in only process context, then most probably this is because it might sleep, which is only allowed in this context.
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