Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758093AbXIBP2M (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:28:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752821AbXIBP2C (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:28:02 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:40546 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751332AbXIBP2A (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:28:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:36:21 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Ingo Oeser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] new syscalls: suspend_other/resume_other? Message-ID: <20070902163621.547f5765@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <200709021704.22325.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> References: <200709021704.22325.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 613 Lines: 17 > After sucessful return of this call, the affected process > is single threaded and only the calling thread runs > in this process (==MM struct). Not quite - vfork... > This call might be restricted to the main thread. What if differing threads have differing security credentials And if you plan to suspend all the other threads wtf is wrong with SIGSTOP ? - 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/