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## multitasking

  Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
  Re: multitasking (Dennis J Perkins)
  Re: Answer (David Welch)
  Keywords: multitasking
  Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 17:41:27 GMT
  From: Dennis J Perkins <dperkins@btigate.com>

So, preemptive multitasking does not mean that a process stops running, that is, it is no longer current, as soon as do_timer decrements its priority to the point where it no longer has the highest priority? It continues running until it returns from a system call?