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From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: bin/31661: pthread_kill signal handler doesn't get sigcontext
	or ucontext
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Synopsis: pthread_kill signal handler doesn't get sigcontext or ucontext

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: deischen
State-Changed-When: Wed Feb 4 07:47:36 PST 2004
State-Changed-Why: 
This is written against libc_r's implementation of pthread_kill;
libpthread does provide full signal handler arguments to pthread_kill.
Still it iw worth noting that trying to do anything sane with
a context from a pthread_kill() is probably not what you want
especially for scope process threads.  pthread_kill() is a
simulated interrupt and the threads interrupted context is generated
by the threads library -- it is not like a real signal interrupted
the thread while it was running.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=31661