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Re: Syscall (was: Re: [MiNT] DATE/TIME cookies)



On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 11:15:47AM +0100, Johan Klockars wrote:
> 
> Having a kernel stack does pose another problem, though, which hasn't
> been mentioned yet - a kernel call must run to completion before another
> can be made.
> If it was possible to preempt the kernel, another thread could attempt to
> call it too, and that 'copy' of the kernel couldn't use the same stack...

I guess you would need a local kernel stack for each process, then.

cu
Michael
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