Re: [BUG] threaded processes get stuck in rt_sigsuspend/fillonedir/exit_notify

From: Ray Bryant (raybry@austin.ibm.com)
Date: Mon Sep 11 2000 - 18:45:14 EST


Is there a succinct description of the the thread group changes someplace?
I'd be willing to take a look at fixing linuxthreads, but haven't seen any
description
(other than the kernel source) of what the changes are. Or is someone already
working on this?

Ulrich Drepper wrote:

>
> The thread group changes broke the signal handling in linuxthreads.
> The CLONE_SIGHAND is now also used to enable thread groups but since
> linuxthreads already used CLONE_SIGHAND and is not prepared for thread
> groups all hell breaks loose.
>
> I've told Linus several times about this problems but he puts out one
> test release after the other without this fixed.
>
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