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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Re: Dynamic allocation of tasks
Date: 2000/03/22
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* Florian Weimer wrote:
>What's the effect of an abort statement if the task in question is
>blocked in a syscall (such as read(2))?

OS depended: May block forever.