Re: Re: Process blocking

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On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:46:46PM -0000, jhoney jhoney wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. How the application knows that kernel has unblocked.

It doesn't "know". It gets woken up (by an IRQ handler for the
particular device it sleeps on, for example) and hence becomes runnable
again (i.e.: it's on the scheduler run queue).


Erik

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