Re: putting a user program to sleep till interrupted

[Martin Maletinsky <maletinsky@scs.ch>]

Hello,

A good explanation is found in:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lki/lki-2.html#ss2.5

and also in Chapter 5, 'Linux Device Drivers' from Alessandro Rubini & Jonathan Corbet
(you find an electronic version of the book in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/)

regards
Martin

Anil Kumar wrote:

> hi,
> I wanted to know how a user program/process can be put
> to sleep by using the functions given in the kernel. I
> will be calling the function not from user space but
> from kernel space, i.e. from inside the kernel. I also
> want to be able to start it again whenever required.
> I went thru sched.c but couldn't figure out how to
> make my own wait list.
> Thanx in advance.
> Anil
>
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