Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:36:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Kernel thread signal handling. |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Sigh. Using signals to communicate with kernel threads is evil. It keeps > on breaking and each site does it differently and we've had plenty of bugs > due to this practice.
Yeah, it's not wonderfully pretty, but at least this patch makes bugs _less_ likely, by having more of the common stuff abstracted out. And clearly allow_signal() was broken before, since it didn't allow anything but deadly signals, despite the fact that it was supposed to be generic.
Linus
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