[ale] interrupt numbers

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Calvin
Harrigan<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> I don't think interrupts are mapped to user processes per se. ?As far as
> I remember the OS handles all hardware interrupts in the kernel. ?If a
> process needs to get data from a peripheral it goes through the
> kernel/driver.
That makes sense. app hands off read/write requests to kernel for
processing then app locks up due to time lag 'cause the hard drive(s)
are dragging....
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