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Re: NPTL and glibc (on Sid)



On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 22:46 +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> I don't have any man pages (in english) for pthread_kill, which is
> briefly mentionned in libc-doc. Bizarrely, manpges-fr from
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/doc/manpages-fr seems to contain a
> french translation of such a man page.

Take a look at the tkill man page. Its not portable but it will probably
do what you want. I've never used it though. In my experience if you can
find a way to avoid signals you win, especially in a library because
signal IDs are a limited and their namespace is shared throughout the
task. 

Ian



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