Hi, what happen when you call wake_up_interruptible and there are no task waiting on that wait queue right then. But say after some time a task comes along and start waiting (after the wake_up_interruptible is called). Would that task be not wait at all because there was a pending wake up What i'm looking for is a mechanism where by any old wake if not acted upon are lost. so in the above mention case if a task come along and waits after a wake has been sent, it continues to wait until a next wake up is sent. feel free to ask me if there is some more clarification required. TIA fundu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs