[PATCH] _exit.c, exit vs. exit_group

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> Compiling with 2.6 headers, and booting into a 2.4 kernel without
> exit_group should be allowed. Although ABORT_INSTRUCTION does end the
> execution of the process, it's architecture dependant and not always a
> pretty thing.

What are you talking about?  The existing code already uses the exit
syscall in case exit_group isn't available.  All your patch does is
create a mess out of plain, simple sources.  If exit_group returns it is
with ENOSYS, nothing else.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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