What is call out table in unix?

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Hi,
Can anybody tell me the 'call out table' in unix? The explanation is given in 'Maurice J. Bach' book but I'm getting difficulty in understanding the example especially, the one explaining the reason of negative time out fields. For what purpose the software interrupts are used there?

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