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void defer()


Makes a process swap out immediately after the function is called. Useful if a process knows that it will not need to do any work until the next time around the scheduler loop.

defer() is implemented as a C built-in function.



Fred G. Martin
Fri Mar 29 17:44:15 EST 1996