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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:52:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it>
To: irfan_hamid@softhome.net
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Subject: Re: cli()/sti() clarification
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 irfan_hamid@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> I added two system calls, blockintr() and unblockintr() to give cli()/sti() 
> control to userland programs (yes I know its not advisable) but I only want 
> to do it as a test. My test program looks like this: 
> 
> 	blockintr();
> 	/* Some long calculations */
> 	unblockintr(); 

May I ask what are you trying to achieve?

.TM.

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