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SubjectRe: CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR
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In message <20040121070844.GA31807@hockin.org> you write:
> Process A has now discarded useful potentially VALUABLE information, with no
> way to retrieve it. The hot plug scripts do not have enough information to
> put things the way they were before. I can't believe that anyone considers
> this to be OK.

We already established that the process which cares has to listed to
hotplug events.

Userland should handle it *before* telling the kernel to remove the
CPU. What we're dealing with here is merely a corner case, IMHO worth
neither hysteria nor a great deal of code.

Rusty.
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