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Date:      Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:16:52 +0200
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        wine-freebsd@hub.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_thr.c syscalls.master src/sys/sys
Message-ID:  <200708191816.55617.tijl@ulyssis.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708191051570.16079@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <200708160526.l7G5Qg0b008022@repoman.freebsd.org> <87hcmwot68.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0708191051570.16079@sea.ntplx.net>

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On Sunday 19 August 2007 16:53:13 Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Daniel Eischen <deischen@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.

Solaris exposes LWPs via the /proc file system and allows sending
signals to them that way.



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