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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