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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2003-12-20 23:39:42 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2003-12-20 23:39:42 +0000
commitc0ecb80a43103964d30d8629ce45098fca307081 (patch)
tree859db25ae2d571c91dabf49a70c8c2e1da535ebe /nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
parentbbe35eb57144c081d10e76e35e52e9b400202b72 (diff)
Update.
2003-12-20 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> * elf/rtld.c (dl_main): Optimize order or subexpressions in if().
Diffstat (limited to 'nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c')
-rw-r--r--nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c b/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
index 6967acd92b..87577be4dc 100644
--- a/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
+++ b/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ __pthread_kill (threadid, signo)
/* We have a special syscall to do the work. */
INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
+ /* One comment: The PID field in the TCB can temporarily be changed
+ (in fork). But this must not affect this code here. Since this
+ function would have to be called while the thread is executing
+ fork, it would have to happen in a signal handler. But this is
+ no allowed, pthread_kill is not guaranteed to be async-safe. */
int val;
#if __ASSUME_TGKILL
val = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (tgkill, err, 3, THREAD_GETMEM (THREAD_SELF, pid),