Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261216AbUJYS5H (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:57:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261166AbUJYS4S (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:56:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43392 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261244AbUJYSzC (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 14:55:02 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:54:53 -0700 Message-Id: <200410251854.i9PIsrjX010407@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Jesse Barnes X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Fw: BUG_ONs in signal.c? In-Reply-To: Jesse Barnes's message of Monday, 25 October 2004 09:23:54 -0700 <200410250923.54067.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> X-Windows: complex nonsolutions to simple nonproblems. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 567 Lines: 15 > Yeah, this looks good, although we'll end up calling do_group_exit > instead of do_exit for the dumped task, is that ok? It's necessary for correcetness. do_group_exit takes the siglock and checks the group_exit and group_exit_code fields, so in the race situation the thread gets the right exit code. Thanks, Roland - 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/