On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Yes, force_sig() unblocks and un-ignores the signal. However, unlike
> group-wide
> signals, thread-specific signals do not convert themselves to SIGKILL on
> delivery.
> The target thread should dequeue SIGSEGV and then it calls do_group_exit().
No it couldn't.
Why? Because the target thread is the one that *caused* the SIGSEGV in the
first place. It's not going to dequeue *anything*. It's either going to
take the SIGSEGV, or it's going to get another SIGSEGV and now it's no
longer masked/handled and it's going to die.
Linus
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