Re: Problem with schedule_timeout..

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


> 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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