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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        deischen@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dumb KSE question
Message-ID:  <16142.51964.387258.760328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307111018150.815-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
References:  <16142.50418.692392.183187@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307111018150.815-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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Daniel Eischen writes:
 > That's a dumb question :-)  All joking aside, it is suppose
 > to make a callback into the UTS so another thread can run
 > and shouldn't block the process.  It will be automatic
 > and your driver does not need to do anything special.

Thanks..  I just wanted to make sure that was really how it worked,
and there was no exception hidden in the fine print for blocking done
via ioctl rather than a normal syscall.

Thanks!

Drew



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