Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:27:30 -0700 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify |
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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> David Ford <david@kalifornia.com> writes: > > > On the recent test kernels, processes get stuck. A kill -9 results in > > zombies. > > The thread group changes broke the signal handling in linuxthreads. > The CLONE_SIGHAND is now also used to enable thread groups but since > linuxthreads already used CLONE_SIGHAND and is not prepared for thread > groups all hell breaks loose. > > I've told Linus several times about this problems but he puts out one > test release after the other without this fixed.
This is kinda important, I run DNS tools which are threaded amongst numerous other threaded programs a lot. What needs to be done to fix it?
-d
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