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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Kernel thread signal handling.
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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?