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To: Neil Booth who wrote (48933)	7/25/2001 10:05:26 AM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Depends on priority settings. If a task is set at a higher priority than another, and that task is stuck in an endless loop, it will "stall" all other lower priority apps. The OS has no way of knowing if a task is doing meaningful work or has crashed. In that situation, killing the task with teh task manager would be the only choice. I have not used Linux, but have used QNX (a realtime UNIX clone) from 83-91 (starting on the original PC), and that OS dealt with task scheduling much the same way. Being a realtime OS though it was much more responsive, with a blindingly fast context switch.

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