how about making a signal handler for SIGUSR1 that checks a global variable and
loops. an other signal handler for SIGUSR2 to clear the variable so the SIGUSR1
handler can exit.
All in user space. (to delay execution kill -USR1 $pid, to continue: kill -USR2
$pid)
me
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