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Processes<br />

InterProcess Communication IPC<br />

– Sleep and Wakeup<br />

» IPC primitives that block instead of busy<br />

waiting<br />

» SLEEP<br />

system call that causes the caller to block (i.e be<br />

suspended until another process wakes it up)<br />

» WAKEUP<br />

system call that wakes or unblocks a process<br />

one parameter: the process id. of process to be<br />

unblocked<br />

Copyright © 2007 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong> (www.vernon.eu)

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