Re: kernel question

Ketan Mukadam <kmukadam@neomagic.com> · Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:17:58 +0530

It means that whenever a process executes kernel code(during a system 
call), the process is interruptible, but the same code can not be run 
again by any other process.

HTH

Ketan

802.11 wrote:

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, earl wrote:

What does it mean when one says that a
"kernel is interruptible but not reentrant"?

please correct me if iam wrong

REENTRANT KERNELS:

	In this type of kernel's the CONTROL-PATH(that is the chunk of 
assembly instructions necessary to execute after the system call is 
made)can be interrupted by other process. doing this improves the 
performance of the kernel. 

thanks

vamsi

any response is fine with me.

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