Why create_kthread passes SIGCHLD to kernel_thread?

From: Peng Tao
Date: Wed Feb 27 2013 - 05:37:28 EST


Hello,

Looking at do_fork(), it seems that SIGCHLD is used to tell what kind
of trace event to report but kernel_thread() certainly doesn't want
any of it. So what does this SIGCHLD mean for create_kthread?

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Thanks,
Tao
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