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Subject: Re: kern_threads.c..  lock question..
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On Wed, 7 May 2003, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 07-May-2003 Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 6 May 2003, David Xu wrote:

> I thought singlethreading only suspended other threads and that
> they can be resumed later if need be.  I suppose in that case
> you wouldn't use P_SINGLE_EXIT though.

exactly.
"single thread yourself by means of murdering all the competition"

> 
> 
> Please let's optimize later and get things working _first_.


> Right now current has this really annoying piss-ant of a bug
> where I lose my keyboard every so often in X, probably due to
> a locking bug I haven't managed to track down yet (feels an
> awful lot like a lost wakeup).

Its not anything urgent.. it just came up in conversation with david..
I'm not in a hurry to change it.  certainly not before 5.1.
(It only affects KSE processes anyhow)
What we were actually discussing was a potential corruption of the 
KSE sigmask in userland. This was just something we noticed while
passing through..