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Cc: Ady_Li@trendmicro.com.cn, Roman Streltsov <warlock@voip.kg>,
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Subject: Re: system scope threads entering STOP state
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Daniel Eischen wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>  
>
>>it may be worth looking at libthr too
>>as it (the alternate threading library)
>>is sufficiently different in this regard.
>>    
>>
>
>If there's a problem with libpthread, I suspect it's in the
>kernel, so it should be present for libthr as well.  The user
>library does nothing special for SIGSTOP nor waitXXX().
>  
>

but the kernel handles signals differently between the two threading 
models so
different code paths are followed which measn that it may be an instructive
experiment.