>>>>> "CH" == Charles M Hannum <mycroft@mit.edu> writes:

CH> a) P_SYSTEM currently prevents signals from being delivered to a
CH>    process, which would prevent nfsiod from ever being killed.  I
CH>    suggest removing these semantics, and instead having the pagedaemon
CH>    and swapper processes set their signal masks to block all signals.

Won't they still be vulnerable to SIGKILL (unmaskable)?  That'll need to
be specially masked, right?

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