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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Baldwin wrote:

> NEEDRESCHED (albeit rather broken at the moment) is used to implement 
> preemptino of user threads.

Are preemptinos the subatomic particles which, when they collide, create
preemption events?

mcl