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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2013-01-08 21:31:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2013-01-08 21:31:31 +0100 |
| commit | 51c95fc11727532e3b0d98c8470a6b60907a0680 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a8dd54654398bb2b05ce3f7cbcdc211d1dfbfb7 /continuation.mdwn | |
| parent | 160d0597cb94d58f8ab273226b1f3830589a500b (diff) | |
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diff --git a/continuation.mdwn b/continuation.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..87f88f27 --- /dev/null +++ b/continuation.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +Continuations are a facility which allows a thread to store its state, yield +the processor to another thread, and when it's dispatched again by the +scheduler, it can resume with its saved state. + +[[!wikipedia Continuation]] + +See also [[GNU Mach's use of +continuations|microkernel/mach/gnumach/continuation]]. |