Re: [PATCH] signals: do_tkill: don't use tasklist_lock

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:58:13PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Note that we don't return an error if lock_task_sighand() fails, we pretend the
> task dies after receiving the signal. Otherwise, we should fight with the nasty
> races with mt-exec without having any advantage.

This should be mentioned in a comment in the code.

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