Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756573Ab0FIU0d (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:26:33 -0400 Received: from fep14.mx.upcmail.net ([62.179.121.34]:64983 "EHLO fep14.mx.upcmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446Ab0FIU0c (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:26:32 -0400 X-SourceIP: 77.57.188.152 Message-ID: <4C0FF8F2.5070104@odi.ch> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:26:26 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ortwin_Gl=FCck?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100415 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: freeze when strace X References: <4C0FDF9F.9070000@odi.ch> <20100609195228.GA27088@srcf.ucam.org> <4C0FF34D.6090800@odi.ch> <20100609200610.GA27536@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20100609200610.GA27536@srcf.ucam.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=tsaDvxd5BMYuajhtvJLL+Ppe47iaIgCGP4JcOtoQkcg= c=1 sm=0 a=zNANCjgXmV0A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ENdvOZnJ4qRVE2Fq6LIA:9 a=AKybijNsLi0pg3IiO9fRLZ6Qk6AA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 15 On 09.06.2010 22:06, Matthew Garrett wrote: > strace needs to output text via X, which generates output which needs to > be output via X... and you'll tend to deadlock. If X is holding any > interesting kernel locks at that point then it wouldn't surprise me if > the machine ends up dead. Alright. It *is* a silly thing to do. Sorry. -- 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/