Signals and an exiting thread

[Jilles Tjoelker]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:08:17PM -0700, Justin Teller wrote:
> However, we did a little more investigation, and the SIGKILL example
> Jilles posted happens as well.  We post a SIGKILL to a thread, and the
> thread goes away before it can kill the process.

If you mean pthread_kill() with "posting to a thread", then that does
not seem a bug. I expect that pthread_kill() signals are lost when a
thread exits and that pthread_kill() to a thread that has already
terminated but has not yet been joined does nothing (possibly returning
an error).

If a SIGKILL from kill() is lost, that is a bug.

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Jilles Tjoelker