Re: Problem with schedule_timeout..

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 08 2001 - 07:38:22 EST

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    > I am a relatively newb in the kenel programming. I am using the
    > function "schedule_timeout" for sleeping for some time. But in some cases
    > the function returns after the specified timeout but in some instance it
    > returns immediately, without decrementing the timeout value passed as the
    > argument.

    Make sure you have the task set to be in interruptible or uninterrutible
    sleep before you do the schedule_timeout

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