On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:15:50AM +1000, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > shouldn't we look at fixing apm itself instead of working around it? :) also > this is a pretty major issue here as this means suspend/resume is going to be > very liable to hit this bug and thus have problems. the apm process itself > getting hung in such a way all parent processes also get hung in waitpid() > even > if they call it with WNOHANG is going to hang... this is bad... :( > Yes we should, at the time I was young foolish and working on not linux stuff so I filed the bug. My patch worked so well for OE no-one ever bothered to look at problem again.
Graeme
