cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thr.c syscalls.master src/sys/sys

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sun Aug 19 07:53:20 PDT 2007


On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote:

> Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> writes:
>
>> FreeBSD as well as Solaris and Linux (it looks like Linux only allows a
>> thread group to be signaled) have gotten along without this API, and
>> Wine seems to be the only target for this syscall.
>
> Actually, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X all export that functionality,
> and in all cases it was added before Wine requested it, probably
> because it's a fairly logical feature to have as part of a kernel
> threading mechanism.

I do not see it in Solaris.  All I can find is _lwp_kill(), which
isn't meant to be used by applications and isn't suppose to work for
LWPs outside the current process.

-- 
DE


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