Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:35:29 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] new sys_tkill2() system call, 2.5.70 |
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > are you suggesting to extend sys_tgkill() functionality to also detect -1 > for the PID, and do a process-signal send?
I don't care much, but that zero special case is definitely not a good idea.
You might make the thing acceptable to me by just removing the "zero means everythign", and replacing that logic with
if (!tgid) tgid = current->tgid; which is similar to how we handle zeroes in some other places. In other words, a zero is not a "wildcard", it means "_this_ thread group".
Linus
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