Re: waitpid advice ? (killing off a kernel thread)

Michael B. Trausch (massacre@quake2.nettally.com)
Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:04:21 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hmm, you might do something like
> while (sys_kill(pid, SIGTERM) != -1)
> schedule();
>
> It is ugly because it depends on PID not being reused, but it might
> work after all.
>
> Wait. In what context process does cleanup_module() code run? It is
> probably not safe to do blocking call in idle task or something
> similary bad.

Yes, but if the thread isn't killed the kernel will lock hard.. :) so
which is worse?

-David Waite

> PS: Is someone working on audio-for-USB?

I think Alan Cox was, but it is low priority right now.

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