Messages in this thread | | | From | <> | Subject | RE: Kernel threads... | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 16:02:34 +0100 |
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> I need to know if there's a way to terminate a kernel thread > (friendly, > killing ...) and a way to attach to it to wait for it's termination. Both termination & info about it should be thread relevant itself but common 'sigkilling/try catch' could be applied as well.
> If I try to launch (in kernel land) a kernel thread as follows: > > pid_kthread = kernel_thread(mythread, ...); > > how can I stop/kill it afterwards (from another process but > also in kernel > land) AFAIK you won't get action from any process over kernel threads.
> and wait for it having finished? sys_waitpid isn't a > good solution > as it expects to be the kernel thread a child of the current > process..
Maybe you could explain the exact domain concerned as in many cases you'd get lost in synchronisation using those controls.
Regards, Fabian
> thanks, > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Germán Cancio Meliá IT/DIS CERN CH-1211 Genève 23 > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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