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Date:      Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:08:22 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Contemplating THIS change to signals. (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <4410.1015538902@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:44:08 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071342160.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071342160.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:

>I would argue that a process can be considered to be suspended even while
>it is running in kernel space.

Since this would affect not only SIGSTOP but actually all signals,
and since we have long-running syscalls like sendfile I'm not sure
this assumption is a good idea.

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