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- Subject: Re: user-written interrupt handlers
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 19:15:04 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <9402281247.AA17278@topo.matups.fr>; from "Thierry Bousch" at Feb 28, 94 1:47 pm
- Message-Id: <9403031815.AA00152@jelal.north.de>
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- Thierry Bousch writes:
-
- > On the other hand, it should be _possible_ for an interrupt handler to
- > raise a signal; for instance, in the case of a SLIP handler, we'd like
- > to receive a signal (or whatever) when a datagram has been completely
- > received, not at every received character...
- >
- > But I don't know if it is safe to call Pkill (via the kernel) in an
- > interrupt handler.
-
- also such a call would have to return quickly if you want to use it
- from a modem interrupt, otherwise you'd get receiver overruns again...
- >
- > Thierry.
- cheers
- Juergen
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