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Date:      Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:41:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
To:        User Sja <sakari.jalovaara@eqonline.fi>
Cc:        <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PROCTREE_LOCK() vs. gdb hang
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0012311440570.90127-100000@volatile.chemikals.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A4F650D.3212A5C5@eqonline.fi>

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, User Sja wrote:

> I don't really know my way around the kernel so I'm just guessing here:
>
> Is there a proctree lock release operation missing in kern_sig.c,
> function issignal()?  There seems to be one lock operation more
> than there are release operations.  I tried putting one in and
> now gdb doesn't hang the whole machine (at least as easily as
> before.)

I don't know anything about the kernel either, but I locked up in gdb the
other day and every process eventually became stuck in proctree... Just my
$0.02US

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