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tania khan
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Joined: Feb 05, 2002
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in threads what is preemptive multitasking? can anyone explain?
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Peter den Haan
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It means that a thread will be forced to relinquish its control of the CPU so that other threads can run. Without pre-emptive multitasking, "greedy" threads may prevent other threads from running.
A greedy thread is a thread that doesn't do any I/O and doesn't call yield().
- Peter
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: Peter den Haan ]
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