From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030811AbXDMVi1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:38:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030812AbXDMVi1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:38:27 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:42648 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030811AbXDMVi0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:38:26 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Cc: Oleg Nesterov , Davide Libenzi , Ingo Molnar , Roland McGrath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] change kernel threads to ignore signals instead of blocking them References: <20070413073116.GA1540@tv-sign.ru> <20070413140802.3798a6bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:36:52 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20070413140802.3798a6bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:08:02 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > jffs2 actually wants its head examined. W. T. F. does it think it's > doing in there? Good question, especially with respect to SIGHUP. It is on my short list of very annoying kernel threads... NFS and a few kernel threads others currently need a way to abort an interruptible sleep when the are terminated. Which has been a pain finding a simple way to allow that without too much trouble. I'm within about a day of having everything converted over to kthreads, allowing me to kill daemonize. Hopefully things I don't run into any serious snags in testing... Eric