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authorJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>2000-02-29 14:07:38 +0000
committerJoel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com>2000-02-29 14:07:38 +0000
commit6f645ff33ad20374c1b719f250bc1cef91a39833 (patch)
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parentFixed typo. (diff)
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Eric Norum spotted this sentence where it said preemption had to be
disabled for timeslicing to happen. This was wrong.
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@@ -1261,7 +1261,9 @@ mode parameter.
The calling task will be preempted if it enables preemption and
a higher priority task is ready to run.
-Enabling timeslicing has no effect if preemption is enabled.
+Enabling timeslicing has no effect if preemption is disabled. For
+a task to be timesliced, that task must have both preemption and
+timeslicing enabled.
A task can obtain its current execution mode, without modifying
it, by calling this directive with a mask value of