Hi again :) On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 16:03, Darshan Ghumare <darshan.ghumare@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What if, there is one process which is in middle of a syscall which has > infinite loop in it received SIGKILL & there are no other processes in the > system? infinite loop such as "for(;;)" ? well as long as it doesn't disable or masked out the timer interrupt, sooner or later timer interrupt will kick in. It then followed by the usual tick handler. Inside it, IIRC, will provoke the current running process to check queued signal and handle it. if the process then killed and no other process is running (are you sure? not even kernel threads?), then kernel will enter idle state. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
