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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:56:33 -0400
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: sock_sendmsg() from a kernel thread question
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> I am trying to call sock_sendmsg() from a kernel thread
> and it seems to work fine on a UP system but on SMP system
> it hangs up and the thread can't even accept a SIGKILL.
> It it stuck after the following calls happen:
> 
> sock_sendmsg()
> sock->ops->sendmsg()
> tcp_do_sendmsg()

Always worked fine for me. I think something is up with
your code. Care to post a relevant snippet?

-- Pete