Re: kernel/sched.c questions

[Steven Walter]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:52:32PM -0300, Sarda?ons, Eliel wrote:
> switch (prev->state) {
>                 case TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE:
>                         if (signal_pending(prev)) {
>                                 prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
>                                 break;
>                         }
>                 default:
>                         del_from_runqueue(prev);
>                 case TASK_RUNNING:
> }

I'm not sure about the other two, but this one is pretty straight
forward:  its listed explicitly because we don't want tasks with 
p->state TASK_RUNNING to fall into the default case, that is, getting
deleted from the runqueue.  This would be bad.

-- 
-Steven
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