svn commit: r209595 - head/sys/kern

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jun 30 13:43:44 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 29 June 2010 5:05:22 pm Ed Schouten wrote:
> * John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Log:
> >   Send SIGPIPE to the thread that issued the offending system call
> >   rather than to the entire process.
> 
> Should something similar be used inside the TTY layer, where
> reads/writes may cause signals to be generated?

Hmm, I'm not sure.  I do think you want to stop the entire process for SIGTTOU 
or SIGTTIN (often the entire process group it seems), so I'm not sure if it 
matters if the signal is sent to only the current thread versus sending it to 
any thread in the process.

-- 
John Baldwin


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