From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 2 11:18:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ABE337B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opal (cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.101]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19855 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:18:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:18:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@opal To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: process scheduling quantum Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Suppose a process is scheduled to run, will it run until its quantum ends unless it calls tsleep() on his own? In other words, is it possible for a process to give up its quantum earlier without having it to do so voluntarily? Thanks. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message