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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Kernel thread signal handling.
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 05:11:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031013051149.29da705a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1066046102.14783.11.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com>

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > How does userspace identify the JFFS2 process to which to send the
> > signal?
> 
> 	daemonize("jffs2_gcd_mtd%d", c->mtd->index);

And then what?  Parse the output of ps(1)?  Use pidof(8)?

> Bitching accomplished; now can we fix the bug?

Insufficient contrition detected :)

Why cannot a procfs or sysfs control be used?


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-13 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-13 10:31 [RFC][PATCH] Kernel thread signal handling David Woodhouse
2003-10-13 11:02 ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-13 11:08   ` Russell King
2003-10-13 11:29     ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-13 11:21   ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-13 11:40     ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-13 11:55       ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-13 12:11         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-10-13 12:30           ` David Woodhouse
2003-10-13 16:36   ` Linus Torvalds

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