Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932353AbVJLAJm (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:09:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932371AbVJLAJm (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:09:42 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:3999 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932353AbVJLAJl (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:09:41 -0400 Subject: RE: [BUG?] 2.6.x (2.6.13) - new signals not being delivered to a terminating (PF_EXITING) process. From: Alan Cox To: "Kilau, Scott" Cc: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" , Linux Kernel Mail List In-Reply-To: <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F36B115@mtk-sms-mail01.digi.com> References: <335DD0B75189FB428E5C32680089FB9F36B115@mtk-sms-mail01.digi.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:38:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1129077506.23677.107.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 638 Lines: 17 On Maw, 2005-10-11 at 14:35 -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote: > Also, why did this work under 2.4? > > This is why I was wondering if this was intentional, or was just an > oversight... It seems that the signal reception in exiting process logic has changed. Serial depends on the old behaviour and its difficult to see how it should be fixed and what else would be "correct behaviour" here. Alan - 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/