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SubjectRe: SMP update: 2.1.30


On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> sched_yield() is slightly broken, here is a (tested) fix:

"slightly", he says.

Yes, it was a typo, but the breakage wasn't exactly slight. Thanks for
spotting it, this bug meant that anybody doing a sched_yield() on 2.1.30
will lock up the system completely. Oops.

Of course, I don't know of any program that actually yields CPU time to
somebody else (it's a bit like "nice" - nobody uses it ;)

Linus


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