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Re: how fork returns value

To: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: how fork returns value
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:31:44 +0200
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On 07-10-08 10:15, Peter Teoh wrote:

In general, I am just trying to understand what are the entities that
can be schedule on the runqueue.

Threads (ie, things with a task_struct). So yes -- if you specifically create a thread, such as with kthread_run(), that thread is scheduled. (and it's irrelevant if the thread has or hasn't a userspace in that respect).

Rene.

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