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Subject: Re: signal_pending() and schedule()
To: melkorainur@yahoo.com (Melkor Ainur)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:53:16 +0000 (GMT)
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> but fails for netscape. In debugging this, I observe
> that after calling schedule_timeout(), the sigpending
> bit appears to be set immediately and thus 

It means a signal was delivered

> schedule() doesn't actually put the process to sleep.

Because the signal is pending. The kernel is expecting to return or take
some action and return to user space if its an interrutible sleep
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