[algogeeks] Re: sleep

2010-06-12 Thread souravsain
@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.

Re: [algogeeks] Re: sleep

2010-06-11 Thread sharad kumar
@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

[algogeeks] Re: sleep

2010-06-10 Thread souravsain
This needs a bit clarification. Interrupts and priority are different. Priority of a process determines who often it gets CPU slot for execution. Interrupt is an external (hardware or software) event raised which may results in temporary context switch from the running process to handle the