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From: Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org>
Subject: Re: World broken at libkvm
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On 30 Sep, Juli Mallett wrote:

> No locks except for the lock of the process being signalled should be
> held when sending signals, IMHO, though I am mostly ignorant of the SIGIO
> locking.

BTW, kill() wants to hold the allproc_lock or a process group lock
while iterating over the list of processes to send signals to.


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