Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!oxtrap!oxtrap!tc From: tc@oxtrap.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (Tse Chih Chao) Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis Subject: Re: Is there a limit...to the number of tasks in ISIS? Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 89 14:45:11 GMT References: <34156@cornell.UUCP> <34162@cornell.UUCP> Sender: tc@oxtrap.aa.ox.com (Tse Chih Chao) Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 8 In-Reply-To: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu's message of 13 Nov 89 14:14:52 GMT In article <34162@cornell.UUCP> ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) writes: (Warning: if a task DOES block, keep in mind that almost anything can happen while it is sleeping: processes can fail, etc...) Tasks block by (1) doing ISIS system calls, or (2) by calling t_wait(). Man pages of t_wait() is wrong.