On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
->> Hmm, actually I don't know in which case it'd be considered as "preemptive
->> at kernel level"... In the case where a thread calls a syscall and gets
->> blocked, the entire process gets blocked not just that thread. In
->> the case where the syscalls are converted to asynchronous calls, would
->> this be the case?
->
->No it wouldn't. The async nature of the call would prevent the
->process from blocking therefore the threads wouldn't block either
->blocking.
->
Sorry for being unclear. I actually meant "Would the async system calls
considered the case for 'preemptive at kernel level'".
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