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authorbdrewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>2016-03-07 21:39:29 +0000
committerbdrewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>2016-03-07 21:39:29 +0000
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Require kldunload -f to unload.
Code may still be executing from the wrappers at unload time and thus is not generally safe to unload. Converting the wrappers to use EVENTHANDLER(9) will allow this to safely drain on active threads in hooks. More work on EVENTHANDLER(9) is needed first. MFC after: 1 week Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
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@@ -194,3 +194,6 @@ Only children of the set process are logged.
Processes can escape being traced by double forking.
This is not seen as a problem as the intended use is build monitoring, which
does not make sense to have daemons for.
+.Pp
+Unloading the module may panic the system, thus requires using
+.Ic kldunload -f .
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