@sharad process A has gone to sleep asking kernel to wake it only if resource which it needs is available. So this process is sleeping.
I think it is not possible for a process to interrupt another process. Lets understand it by these examples. Two processes can communicate, bit not interrupt. Communication is different from interrupts. If process A says "Are u there?" to process B, process B may say "Yes" or process B may not reply. It is process A's responcibility to handle all cases like got reply from B, did not get reply from B, wait indefinetly or return saying error. For interrupts lets understand it this way. Process A says I want to write this value to a file. Kernel may decide to write this to the actual file in the disk. This means disk device driver (this will be some routine in kernal code) will called by kernal to write the value to the file. For this time, process A may be put to sleep by kernel (but not necessarily. If process A is the only process running and it has more thread then some other thread of A may execute now). If put to sleep, Kernel will run another process B which may be, say a music audio for example. When the disk device driver routine will have completed the writing to file, it will give its retrun valur (remember its a routine / function for kernal) to kernal. The kernal will then "interrupt" the sleeping process A as "your job is done". But this it can not do at any time. It has to find a proper instance during the running of process B which the kernel can do so. Because to do so, the kernal has do do a context switch. There are more issues to this. For example if kernel is executing some system call, called by B, it may not immediately do the context switch. In system calls the kernal may be manipulating some of its internal data structures like in call to malloc etc. So it will do the context switch only acter this data structure manipulation is over. On Jun 11, 3:28 pm, sharad kumar <sharad20073...@gmail.com> wrote: > @souravsain > means that process has slept and asked kernel to wake it only if its > resource which it need,it got so at that time can any process interrupt it > or not -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
