kern/72979: unkillable process(es) stuck in `STOP' state

[Scott Long]

The following reply was made to PR kern/72979; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org>
To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com>
Cc: Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.buffalo.edu>,
	David Xu <davidxu at freebsd.org>,
	Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net>, re at freebsd.org,
	davidxu at t2t2.com, davidxu at viatech.com.cn,
	freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/72979: unkillable process(es) stuck in `STOP' state
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:14:48 -0600

 Mikhail Teterin wrote:
 > =On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:11:54PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
 > =That looks both promising (given symptoms) and low-risk.
 > =
 > =Mikhail et. al., will you have any problems testing that?
 > 
 > This problem was not easy to reproduce to begin with :-(
 > 
 > I don't even know, how it can be positively claimed gone. Shall we merge 
 > David's fix into RELENG_5 and hope for the best?
 > 
 >  -mi
 
 One of the emails in the thread was by Sam Leffler and he seemed to have
 a very easy procedure for producing the problem.  It only required
 attaching GDB to any running threaded process.  Can you look that up and
 see if you get similar results?
 
 Scott