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by mjevans 2173 days ago
There are similar issues for any suspend-able and/or hot-swappable system. An extension to process signals should be created to inform them that a system-context change has occurred. Clock timestamps, features, all assumptions should be invalidated.
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Yeah, but then programs have to know about that. Up until now the general assumption has been that context switches are largely transparent…