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"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes: > Oh, you mean instead of doing kill_proc(struct pid->nr), which > I guess was pretty braindead? :) For a single process we should be able to do: struct pid *pid = ( some value ... ) struct task_struct *task; rcu_read_lock(); task = pid_task(pid); if (task) group_send_sig_info(sig, info, task); rcu_read_unlock(); If it comes up very often that looks like an idiom that would appreciate a helper function. For process groups we must get a read_lock on the task_list_lock because otherwise the atomicity guarantees of sending a signal to a process group are broken. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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