Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:13:14 +0100 | From | Uwe Bonnes <> | Subject | Linux doing "cooperative multitasking"? |
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Hallo,
I use Netscape Version 3.01 on Linux 2.0.25 and XFree 86-3.1.2.F. (Well now it is Xfree 86-3.2) At present I preload libc.so.5.0.9 and libXpm.so.4.6, but I had the problems with libc.so.5.3.12 and libXpm.so.4.7 too. Here my problem ( or better observation).
I start netscape on an rxvt-Term. I forgot to send it in the Background by not giving "&" at the end of the command line. So I hit "^Z" on the terminal I started netscape. Nothing happens for a long time or at all.
Is Linux doing only "cooperative multitasking"?
I know that that Netscape is broken in many regards, but anyways, i thought that Linux is doing preemtive multitasking to cope with such broken programs. And a "^C" on the controlling terminal is honored.
Is my setup broken? Or is there another problem.
Thanks
(if you get tis message twice, sorry, sent it yesterday to linux-kernel-digest@vger.rutgers.edu, didn't get something back, so I resent it to linux-kernel) -- Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
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