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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:59:44 +0100
From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Critical (or equivalent) section in Userland?
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:52:39AM -0400, Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote:

>   Take a look at rtprio(2), giving yourself a realtime priority will
> guarantee you the CPU until you explicitly release it (or another higher
> priority realtime process comes along).

I'd assume it is possible that one of the renames might block,
resulting in some other process being scheduled. This would
certainly be possible over NFS.

	David.


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