dumb KSE question

[Julian Elischer]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 
> We have a driver which will block a thread in a cv_timewait_sig()
> after it calls into driver via an ioctl.  Under libc_r, this will
> naturally block the entire process until the driver wakes it up via a
> cv_signal().
> 
> I assume that with KSE, the UTS will schedule another thread to run as
> a result of calling the cv_timewait_sig()?  Ie, it won't block the
> entire process?

yes, both libthr and libkse will allow your process to continue, sans
thread.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
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