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Re: linking experimental patch

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 13:17 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:06:29PM -0400, Janne Karhunen wrote:
> > This used to work from within the process up to 2.6.14 I think,
> > I've yet to see it work since then. Last time this was discussed 
> > on LKML concluded that this will probably not be fixed any time
> > soon. But I'll double check this with the latest.
> 
> Oh, from _within_ the process.  No, that won't work, you have to
> fork.  Too many deadlocks, as I recall.

Would have been lot nicer to have thread specific sigstop, but
after digging this for a while there's really no sane place 
to hide the 'this SIGSTOP is meant to be thread specific' 
information anywhere in the syscall api. 


-- 
// Janne
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