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33 .Nd idle a virtual processor
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45 is used to idle a virtual processor on which the calling thread is running.
46 It's typically used when the process's userland scheduler has no userland
49 Scheduler activation should be enabled by
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56 will not return to userland in the normal way.
57 It returns into an upcall hander with an upcall.
58 Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and
60 is set to indicate the error.
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