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4.2 Timers

To animate the system, the kernel allocates the clock interrupt for himself. As the real clock interrupt is hidden now, a timer server is included in the kernel to export a pseudo clock interrupts. There is a single timer server per node.



 

Francisco J. Ballesteros
1998-05-25