In article <E15VL6x-0007Jm-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu) writes:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>> In article <20010810231906.A21435@bonzo.nirvana> you write:
>> You have to use the reboot() system call directly as root, with the
>> proper arguments to make it avoid doing even any sync. See
>> man 2 reboot
> How do you do this when the process in the D state is holding the BKL?
A process in D state sleeps and the BKL is always automatically dropped
when a process sleeps.
Bigger problems are other semaphores like inode sems, especially
when they belong to important shared libraries or directories.
-Andi
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