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To: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
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Subject: Re: how to let all others run
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From: John Fremlin <chief@bandits.org>
Date: 04 Apr 2001 21:11:27 +0100
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Hi Oliver!

 Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> is there a way to let all other runable tasks run until they block
> or return to user space, before the task wishing to do so is run
> again ?

Are you trying to do this in kernel or something? From userspace you
can use nice(2) then sched_yield(2), though I don't know if the linux
implementations will guarrantee anything.

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