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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:35:36 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Contemplating THIS change to signals. (fwd)
Message-ID:  <15495.63816.189506.113294@caddis.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071410570.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
References:  <4410.1015538902@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071410570.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>

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> My suggestion is to stop making STOP type signals an exception,
> because it should not be necessary to stop them in the middle of a
> syscall, just stop them from getting back to userspace.

What about when you suspend a process in the middle of read/write, which
are syscalls?  This kind of behavior is *extremely* common-place.



Nate

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