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Date:      Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:44:16 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Contemplating THIS change to signals. (fwd) 
Message-ID:  <5179.1015541056@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Mar 2002 14:37:17 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071410570.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203071410570.37321-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:

>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.

I don't agree: we can have very long running syscalls, and being able
to stop them may make sense  sendfile(), RAID5-rebuilds etc etc.

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