svn commit: r209595 - head/sys/kern

[Matthew Jacob]

Excuse my ignorance, but aren't signals supposed to be to processes, not 
specific threads?

My memory/knowledge of Posix in this area is very rusty.

> 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.
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