On Wed, 14 May 2008 15:28:34 +0100 Graeme Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> 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. aha! time we killed the sucker then (as i'm pondering really how this is going to work sanely without a bug for us without jumping through all sorts of hoops in userspace and still being bitten by it in another way...). i just get nervous with kernel bugs. i like to think my kernel is solid and all my bugs are mine up in userspace :) -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
