[PATCH 1/1] Fix bugs determining active VT consoles

[William Jon McCann]

On 8/30/07, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On FreeBSD, having a process sit in VT_WAITACTIVE can cause kernel panics or
> unkillable processes that consume 100% of the CPU.  To work around this
> problem, replace the model where individual threads call VT_WAITACTIVE
> with a g_timeout model which checks the active VT every second, and queues
> an event when it changes.

As I said in the other mail, I don't think we want to do this.  Can
you describe why you think this isn't a FreeBSD kernel bug?

Thanks,
Jon