On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:

 > But in practice, it *is*.  There is a broad range of states where the OS
 > is functional enough to process keyboard interrupts, but not functional enough
 > to, say, let me kill the process that currently has my console window tied
 > up, or let me log in on another console.

You didn't originally say "process keyboard interrupts" ... you said
"sync disks".  If scheduling is borked, how can you sync the disks?

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