Re: Help with understanding process state, context switching and

2003-02-07 Thread Hiten Pandya
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:35:15PM +0200, Andrey Simonenko wrote the words in effect of: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:50:28AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > In this case, as I understand, I need to modify some parts of the kernel. > What is IP ? I think Julian meant IPI (Inter-Processor Interrup

Re: Help with understanding process state, context switching and

2003-02-07 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:50:28AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > The only way it makes sense to talk about suspending > a process in user space from the kernel, would be in a MP system. in a > UP system, if you are in the kernel, then there is no process in user > space. (it trapped into the k

Re: Help with understanding process state, context switching and

2003-02-06 Thread Julian Elischer
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Help with understanding process state, context switching and signals

2003-02-06 Thread Andrey Simonenko
Hello. After spending some time in reading different mailing lists archives, analyzing FreeBSD 4.x sys/kern and sys/i386 sources and reading 4.4BSD book I still can't find an answer, so, I ask my question here. In short: I need to stop (suspend) some process from the kernel, when that process is