Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261222AbVBVUFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261224AbVBVUFo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:44 -0500 Received: from mta9.adelphia.net ([68.168.78.199]:35730 "EHLO mta9.adelphia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261222AbVBVUFl (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:41 -0500 Message-ID: <421B9018.7020007@nodivisions.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:03:36 -0500 From: Anthony DiSante User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups References: <421A3414.2020508@nodivisions.com> <200502211945.j1LJjgbZ029643@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <421A4375.9040108@nodivisions.com> <421B12DB.70603@aitel.hist.no> <421B14A8.3000501@nodivisions.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 678 Lines: 17 linux-os wrote: > There has been some discussion that these hung > states could be "fixed", but that's absolutely > positively incorrect. That's one of the things I asked a few messages ago. Some people on the list were saying that it'd be "really hard" and would "require a lot of bookkeeping" to "fix" permanently-D-stated processes... which is completely different than "impossible." -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/