Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:44:16 +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: <5179.1015541056@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 2002 14:37:17 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071410570.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071410570.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju lian Elischer writes: >My suggestion is to stop making STOP type signals an exception, >because it should not be necessary to stop them in the middle of a >syscall, just stop them from getting back to userspace. I don't agree: we can have very long running syscalls, and being able to stop them may make sense sendfile(), RAID5-rebuilds etc etc. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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