Re: user-written interrupt handlers

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

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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