Re: sleepy syscalls?

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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:17 PM, NAHieu <nahieu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if it is true that all syscalls can sleep? Is there any
> exception?

None, AFAIK.
All syscalls are invoked from the user context, so they can very well sleep.

thanks,
   --Pradeep
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