dumb KSE question

Andrew Gallatin gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Fri Jul 11 07:34:45 PDT 2003


Daniel Eischen writes:
 > That's a dumb question :-)  All joking aside, it is suppose
 > to make a callback into the UTS so another thread can run
 > and shouldn't block the process.  It will be automatic
 > and your driver does not need to do anything special.

Thanks..  I just wanted to make sure that was really how it worked,
and there was no exception hidden in the fine print for blocking done
via ioctl rather than a normal syscall.

Thanks!

Drew


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