hi, You r right rather i think its not supported in 2.6 at all,i have'n't gone through 2.6 but this someone as answer me in the mailing list 3 4 months ago for the same question i raised on the mailing list, rather u search archives of mailing list u will get the answer. Prasanna --- "Dhiman, Gaurav" <Gaurav.Dhiman@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > Can anyone tell, what is the function defined in > kernel for putting the > process to sleep in exclusive mode (TASK_EXLUSIVE). > > Rubini's book talk about it in chapter 5 (ioctl), > but does not tell > which kernel function to call for putting the > process to sleep in > exclusive mode. > > I tried to search the sources, found > "add_wait_queue_exclisive()" but > could not find the function which calls it for > putting the process to > sleep in exclusive mode. > > > > If anybody knows, please reply. > > > > Regards, > > Gaurav > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/