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Xref: sserve comp.os.misc:3051 comp.os.lynx:498 comp.os.386bsd.questions:10551 comp.os.lynx:499 comp.os.mach:3888 comp.os.minix:23814 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!astfgl.edb.tih.no!jedi!root From: root@jedi.edb.tih.no (Ragnvald T. Blindheim) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Need good OS for intel X86 platform. LINUX!!! Date: 30 May 1994 06:52:55 GMT Organization: Trondheim College of Engineering Lines: 14 Message-ID: <2sc2g7$k3c@astfgl.edb.tih.no> References: <1994May27.141723.13104@eplrx7.es.duPont.com> <n9044144.770068471@honeydew> <JRICHARD.94May27170016@charon.uml.edu> <2s7euj$ahp@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Reply-To: ragnvald@edb.tih.no NNTP-Posting-Host: jedi.edb.tih.no X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] balister@maddog.async.vt.edu wrote: : I think preempitive multitasking means a high priority task can : interupt a lower priority task even if it's in the kernel. If someone has Processes preemted when in kernel mode? I don't think so..... I'm *no* Linux-guru (not even a Linux-user :-), but I don't think Linux can force preemption on processes while they are in kernel mode. -- Ragnvald T. Blindheim ragnvald@edb.tih.no Utleirveien 6 7033 Trondheim Norway