* Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070820 11:43] wrote: > We have a lwp_kill() system call that sends a signal to a thread within > a process. It turns out to be fairly necessary for any sort of heavily > integrated multi-threaded work. In our case we need it to be able to > issue IPIs (aka SIGUSR1) to cpus within a SMP virtual kernel. > > int lwp_kill(pid_t pid, lwpid_t tid, int sig); > > -Matt
It's always bothered me that there wasn't a generation count included in the kill(2) interface. What do you think about that? It would be useful for pidfiles to ensure that a recycled pid doesn't get a program SIGwhatever'd. -- - Alfred Perlstein _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
