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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: (PC/AT) why not include 'sync' in keyboard.c (for rebooting?)
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.111539.1287@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 16 Apr 91 11:15:39 GMT
References: <3044@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <3044@krafla.rhi.hi.is> einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason) writes:
>Just a thought.  Is there anything that prohibits one from putting 'sync()'
>somewhere inside 'keyboard.c', so that whenever you want (or need) to boot

Yes. It might cause deadlock. FS is not designed to accept (non-reply)
messages from anywhere except user tasks and MM. (MM is not designed to
accept messages from anywhere except user tasks, but in special cases it
can accept messages from FS and from the kernel.)
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Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au