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Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:44:30 +0100
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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On 03/25, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The whole "signals are very special for IO threads" thing has caused
> so many problems, that maybe the solution is simply to _not_ make them
> special?

Or may be IO threads should not abuse CLONE_THREAD?

Why does create_io_thread() abuse CLONE_THREAD ?

One reason (I think) is that this implies SIGKILL when the process exits/execs,
anything else?

Oleg.