On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:35:33AM -0000, Dinesh Gandhewar wrote: > blocking operation. What happens to this process and other processes in the > system? Is it that this process goes in wait state in kernel mode and other > process gets scheduled. When the required event occurs the blocked process > wakes up and waits for its chance to get executed. Thanking you, Dinesh. yes regards john -- "I'm frightened of figurines." - Pulp - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/