On Monday 22 April 2002 05:02 am, Erik Mouw wrote: > > If one userspace thread is doing a system call and is pre-empted, can > > the process execute another of its own thread that also executes a > > system call ? > > Sure, why not? Threads and processes are almost the same on linux, so > if a process can be preempted, a thread can also be preempted. Sorry, i suppose i didn't say it right. I wasn't talking about the threads that you create using a system call ( eg. clone() ), but i was referring to user-space libs ( like pthread,etc, ) regards Sridhar -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
