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Subject: Re: Unkillable KSE threaded proc
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Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>Julian Elischer writes:
> > >
> > >Maybe this would be easier to debug if I disabled preemption?
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > I think that this would possibly GO AWAY of you disab;ed preemption. 
> > which would make it very hard to debug :-)
> > 
>
>Yes and no.  You initially asked me to try in -current because of
>some changes you'd made to the exit code.  RELENG_5 (with the old
>exit code and no preemption) shows a different problem (proc is
>just not killable).    If the proc was killable without preemption,
>that would at least show your new code is better..
>

yeah, well I have this on my radar it's #4 on my to do list :-)

>
>Drew
>  
>