[rescue] Mac Appliance
Dave McGuire
rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 21:03:31 CDT 2001
On August 3, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > Cooperative multitasking is multitasking in which each process must
> > decide to give up control of the machine periodically...i.e.,
> > user-process-controlled timeslicing. In preemptive multitasking, the
> > OS maintains control of the machine and "gives" each process
> > timeslices.
>
> but doesn't that still "solve" the re-entrant issue?
Hmm...upon giving it some thought, I guess it does. An application
need only give up control when it's "ready", and won't be interrupted
at just any random point.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
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