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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] tsleep / timer questions
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:55:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d000c0c8c8f149a12adeacfebaff010b@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050325183606.GA93332@smp500.sitetronics.com>

	>So, I thought a nifty solution would be to make use of the
	>rendezvous stuff and call tsleep. But I don't understand how
	>this should work. When the watchdog is enabled, I need to start
	>some procedure that never returns. This would be easy in
	>userland, where I could simply start another thread, but how do
	>I do this in-kernel.

that would be a kproc. look at some of the ether drivers, e.g. ether82557,c
which actually has a kproc called 'watchdog'.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-25 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-24 15:08 Fwd: [9fans] Ad link Brantley Coile
2005-03-24 15:54 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-24 21:15   ` Sam
2005-03-24 22:31     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-03-24 22:47       ` Russ Cox
2005-03-25 15:34         ` Brantley Coile
2005-03-26  0:00           ` geoff
2005-03-26  0:19             ` Russ Cox
2005-03-27 19:03         ` Fwd: " McLone
2005-03-25  4:39       ` geoff
2005-03-25  9:02     ` vdharani
2005-03-25 18:36     ` [9fans] tsleep / timer questions Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-25 18:55       ` jmk [this message]
2005-03-25 20:19         ` Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-25 18:57       ` Russ Cox
2005-03-25 20:04         ` Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-25 20:12           ` Russ Cox
2005-03-25 20:23             ` Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-25 21:36               ` Russ Cox
2005-03-26  8:30                 ` Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-26  8:36                   ` [9fans] Kernel interface manpages Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-26 17:45                     ` Russ Cox
2005-03-26 19:56                       ` Devon H. O'Dell 
2005-03-26 23:03                     ` vdharani
2005-03-26  0:22       ` [9fans] tsleep / timer questions vdharani
2005-03-25  8:51 ` Fwd: [9fans] Ad link vdharani
2005-03-25 15:27   ` Brantley Coile
2005-03-28  1:28 [9fans] tsleep / timer questions YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-03-28  3:38 ` Russ Cox

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