On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 06:13:19PM +0200, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > On Tuesday 01 July 2003 22:18, Jan Hudec wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:56:48PM +0200, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > > > set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE): > > > Does this mean that the process is going to sleep, > > > but can be awaken by delivery of a signal? > > > > > > set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE): > > > Does this mean that the process is going to sleep, > > > but can NOT be awaken by delivery of a signal? > > > > Exactly. > > > > (note: the process will actualy go to sleep when schedule() is called > > - that allows wait_queues to work without locking). > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> > How can I notice that a signal has been delivered in the case of > set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); schedule()/_timeout(); > ?? Call signal_pending(current). (returns true if signal should be handled, false otherwise). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
