Adam Gundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Solaris isn't an issue here - valgrind only works on linux/x86.
Of course Solaris is an issue, unless you somehow make your patch take effect only when running under valgrind. > >Well, sending a signal to a thread from another process is standard > >Linux functionality, so I'd argue that valgrind should support it one > >way or another. > > which surely implies that it is OK to use kill() instead of pthread_kill() > as a mechanism for sending signals to a thread... I assume that under NPTL > pthread_kill() is just a thin wrapper for kill() anyway? No, it's a wrapper for tkill(), which is the system call to send a signal to a thread. kill() sends it to the whole process instead. -- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
