Re: Fw: BUG_ONs in signal.c?

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 14:00:54 EST


> 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
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