Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:14:56 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: Any lightweight way for one thread to force another thread to suspend execution? |
On Sunday 2008-06-22 03:55, Eric Smith wrote:
>Andi wrote:
>> Any such mechanism will need a syscall, and it's unlikely that
>> any syscall will get much cheaper than a kill(SIGSTOP)
>
>But is there a way for the process sending the SIGSTOP to wait until it
>has taken effect? I need a method to *synchronously* stop another
>thread. That's why I thought I probably needed something more
>elaborate than SIGSTOP, though I'd like to minimize the number of
>system calls required.
When it is stopped, the process state changes to "T" (in ps and /proc).
Note that debugging a program with gdb or ptrace also puts it in the T state.
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