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From: Ninad Adi <adi.ninad@gmail.com>
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To,
Freebsd greats,

Dear sirs,
In freebsd 8.2 kernel architecture
Do interrupt handlers run as threads by
default or do they run in interrupt context ??

Ninad.
Freebsd developer.