Select and thread suspension on Kernel 2.6

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 11:24:56 EST 2012


Hi Francisco....

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Francisco Jares Junior
<francisco.jares at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does "select" system call suspend the executing thread or the entire process
> on Kernel 2.6?

I guess, now as you already guessed too, it only suspend the caller thread.

NPTL uses 1:1 model, so if one threads block, others will keep running

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Mulyadi Santosa
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