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.
