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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:06:17 -0800
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9front sleep interrupted in kproc?
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erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> once said:
> since kprocs don't get notes (it's an error to write to the note file),
> sleep in a kproc can't get interrupted.  this code will never fire.

It looks like they can on 9front.

The following is from pc/vgavesa.c:/^vesaproc

	/*
	 * dont wait forever here. some BIOS get stuck
	 * in i/o poll loop after blank/unblank for some
	 * reason. (Thinkpad A22p)
	 */
	procalarm(10000);

Cheers,
  Anthony