system scope threads entering STOP state

[Julian Elischer]

Daniel Eischen wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
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>>it may be worth looking at libthr too
>>as it (the alternate threading library)
>>is sufficiently different in this regard.
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>If there's a problem with libpthread, I suspect it's in the
>kernel, so it should be present for libthr as well.  The user
>library does nothing special for SIGSTOP nor waitXXX().
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but the kernel handles signals differently between the two threading 
models so
different code paths are followed which measn that it may be an instructive
experiment.