Re: rthreads patch #7: redirect kill(getpid(), sig) to the current thread

On 5/6/08, Philip Guenther <guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's true of pthreads, but not of rthreads. Currently with
> rthreads, kill(getpid(),sig) will send the signal to the main thread,
> period. If the main thread has the signal blocked then it'll be left
> pending there, even if the current thread doesn't have it blocked.

oops. I forget now if that was intentional or just implementation
fallout, but Mark's right, we should fix this in the kernel. The
library is the wrong place to workaround this.