Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Kernel thread signal handling. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:30:00 +0100 |
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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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