Re: patch (Re: ^Z during port build and hang?)

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Try this patch.  There is a race during fork() where a ^Z can cause a
>     newly forked process to stop as part of the fork trampoline.  That code
>     path was not setting up the passive release function and the process
>     retained its 'current process' designation when it went to sleep.  The
>     result?  No other user processes can run.
>
>     The thread priority was also not being properly set, possibly giving
>     programs that fork a lot (e.g. a make/build) higher priority then the
>     rest of the system.

	If such is the case, this might solve the so-called interactivity
	issues that Asmodai and others pointed out when one is doing a
	buildworld and using X at thes same time ? (interactivity issues)

						Hiten Pandya