Re: Asynch I/O broken in 2.2.15

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 15:19:25 EST

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Steve Dodd wrote:
> Not if you set your state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (wait_on_buffer does).
> schedule() removes you from the run queue if your state isn't TASK_RUNNING.
>

Then it would sleep there. Interesting, letting folks alter kernel data
structures. Could create some interesting bugs :-).

Jeff

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