> Strictly speaking, a "kill all threads" functionality in kill() violates
> POSIX (as kill() should deliver zero or one signal to threads, but never
> more than one), but I'm not sure if we really care about this heavily
> theoretical argument ...
kill() already allows the killing of multiple processes, so I don't really
see anything wrong with adding the functionality to kill multiple threads
in a single process. It doesn't seem like adding that functionality will
actually move Linux out of POSIX compliance; it just seems like an
extension to me. A non-portable extension perhaps, but it could at least
be implemented without breaking the portable stuff.
shag
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