[PATCH] Add finit_module syscall for Linux

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:31 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>     gettid(2)
>>
>> Very frequently uses. because linux /proc uses tid. pthrad_self()
>> don't help us when facing libc/kernel combination issue.
>> I have no seen any issue of exporting.
>
> Yeah, I've needed gettid() in multiple situations before. I think
> having this available in glibc would be great.

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6399 has been around
for a long time now, but didn't get much traction with Ulrich...

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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/