Re: [RFC][PATCH] Kernel thread signal handling.

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 05:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 	daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);
> 
> And then what?  Parse the output of ps(1)?  Use pidof(8)?

Those work. 

> Insufficient contrition detected :)

Hehe.

> Why cannot a procfs or sysfs control be used?

Mostly because I think that idea sucks, and partly because I think your
ire is misdirected -- it shouldn't be directed at kernel code which
handles signals, but rather at kernel code which sleeps in state
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE but _doesn't_ handle signals.

On the other hand, if you ever find people actually trying to pass
_data_ to kernel threads with sys_rt_sigqueueinfo(), I'll be right
behind you with my own baseball bat waiting to bash the pieces you leave
behind :)

-- 
dwmw2

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