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SubjectRe: Interrupt handler

MNH wrote:
> If a process is executing a system call, and an interrupt is invoked,
> the process blocks. Now since interrupt handlers cannot block, the time
> for which the IH runs is taken out of the process's time-slice ( Is this
> right ?).
>
> What if the IH takes up all of the process's time-slice, does the
> process gets knocked off the current list and thrown into the expired
> list or is there something more to it?

This is the kind of thing LTT will allow you to see:
http://www.opersys.com/LTT/

Karim
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