Re: [tlug] Giving a program priority briefly

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Josh Glover wrote:

> On 10/06/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I hate to differ with Josh, but "single user mode" does not give you
> > full speed.  Single user mode simply means you have fewer daemons  
> > than
> > usual running, not that the current command owns the CPU.  For
> > example, the kernel will always be running. :-)  That is, all of the
> > various housekeeping threads will be running, as well as the TCP/IP
> > stack, etc.
>
> OK, you win. :)

Why does the TCP/IP-stack run in single user mode? I thought that  
there's no networking in single user mode?

Niels