Niels Hald Pedersen wrote:
I would suspect usleep to encapsulate "the SIGALRM method of waiting"
(set an alarm, sending process a signal after a given time, wait for the
signal, handle it),
It doesn't appear to. Sending SIGALRM to the following program doesn't
cause it to terminate any
I stand (sit, actually) corrected !
When I was (even more) Linux newbie (than now), I briefly surveyed the
methods offered for doing subsecond waits, and as I remember, some of
them had a warning about signal interference attached, as of some older
version of libc docs had it. As I felt this was
Why does there exists a VPFN if a process is going to use only one PFN.
(VPFN = Virtual Page Frame Number)
(PFN = Page Frame Number)
The thing is I'm understanding the concept well.
When a process is mapped to its Virtual Page where does the
instructions go? What does the offset part (on an x86
