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To: Anthony DiSante <theant@nodivisions.com>
cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups 
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Comments: In-reply-to Anthony DiSante <theant@nodivisions.com>
   message dated "Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:03:36 -0500."
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:24:55 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Anthony DiSante <theant@nodivisions.com> said:
> 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."

Most people here have little clue. It can't be done.
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