pthread_kill and invalid thread IDs

[Ulrich Drepper]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> This patch lets pthread_kill behave more robustly when handed invalid thread
> IDs.

No way.  And your understanding of the POSIX discussions are wrong. 
There is no requirement to do the dirty job of the application and 
detect invalid thread IDs.  If we can determine an ID is wrong we could 
return ESRCH.  But we cannot and therefore we won't do any testing.

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