Re: Finding whether a process blocked while executing a syscall

[bert hubert]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:52:36PM -0800, selvakumar nagendran wrote:

>     A process can be blocked while executing a syscall
> in the light of some resources needed. Now, I want to
> find out whether a process has been blocked while
> executing a particular syscall or it has finished it
> successfully? If it was blocked I want to perform some
> operation on it. Can anyone help me regarding this?

This question is fraught with difficulty. For one thing, many many system
calls will block for a short time, which you would probably not describe as
'blocked', even though this was true for a few milliseconds.

You did not entirely specify why you want to do this, there may be better
solutions to your problem.

bert

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