On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I fear, that your efforts to "save" the freezer are in vain. It is > already moderately hackish with that PF_FREEZER_SKIP and the kernel > dotted randomly with try_to_freeze() calls, but adding bandaids to try > to order freezing userspace processes in the right order would just > make it a horrible mess.
I agree that bandaids won't work. What's needed is something more radical. Things like FUSE must be written so that the kernel parts _can_ freeze even while they are waiting for a response from a user thread. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
