On Wednesday 14 March 2007 20:56, Kai Ponte wrote:
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...and don't forget that WinNT (XP/Vista/2003) is not preemptive multitasking either. At least not at the kernel level like Linux 2.6+ is.
You really ought to check your facts. You'll give software managers a bad name...
I was just trying to kill some processes on a Win2003 system today and had to wait for the kernel to finish some tasks before it would die.
That can happen on Linux, too. Try to kill a process in a 'D' wait state. It's not possible. Extended duration of a D wait does imply a bug (usually in a disk or file system driver), but it happens.
-- kai
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