Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc/sys/kern
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/07/2002 09:53:13
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:08:08PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:48:19PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > In general, I don't want my processes to block unless they
> > ask to, period
>
> fork() is allowed to block; indeed on a uniprocessor it must for
> at least one of the two resulting processes.
...or, gee, maybe a page has to be faulted in... not like the process
has "asked" to block in that case, either.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>