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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:55:40 -0500
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] tsleep / timer questions
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	>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'.