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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Kilau, Scott" <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mail List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [BUG?] 2.6.x (2.6.13) - new signals not being delivered to aterminating (PF_EXITING) process.
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:55:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1129121730.4741.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F36B12E@mtk-sms-mail01.digi.com>

> Do you know if there was any particular reason why it was changed that
> signals can't be delivered to an exiting process in 2.6?
> Was there maybe some sort of race, and this was the best way to resolve
> it?

I have no idea. It may be a change due to the threaded signal support.
Ask whoever hacked up the signal code last I guess.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-12 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-12  0:44 Kilau, Scott
2005-10-12 12:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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