Re: signalling a user process from interrupt handler

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:30:49PM +0530, Anjaneyulu wrote:
> Can I send a signal to a user process (using send_sig() ) from the
> interrupt handler?????  can anybody tell me the do's & don't in
> a interrupt handler???

send_sig does not sleep so it can be called from interrupt context.
(the only function non-trivial function in send_sig_info is called under
spinlock...)

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