On Jun 4, 2004, at 10:55 AM, Justin Walker wrote:

On Jun 3, 2004, at 22:43, Ramble Leon wrote:

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Can I send signal to a pure kernel thread (created by

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kernel_thread()(), or can kernel thread handle signal?

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I found uthread of a kernel_thread almost contain

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nothing inside.

AFAIK, the answer is 'no' to both questions.

Justin is correct. Signal recognition and handling occur in ASTs on the way back to user-space. Since a kernel thread never returns to user-space, it never executes the ASTs. --Jim [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.