On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple/dumb question about process freezing. > > Instead of freezing every single user land processes by sending them a > fake signal and waiting for them to go to the refrigerator, why not > freezing the scheduler ? Because processes can't simply be frozen immediately. They need to have a chance to release any important locks or mutexes they may be holding. Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
