[PATCH] Linux: Remove exit system call from _exit

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Aug 3 15:53:04 GMT 2022


exit only terminates the current thread, not the whole process, so it
is the wrong fallback system call in this context.  All supported
Linux versions implement the exit_group system call anyway.

---
 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/_exit.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/_exit.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/_exit.c
index 7ad3e0aae4..f916d97ae2 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/_exit.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/_exit.c
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ _exit (int status)
   while (1)
     {
       INLINE_SYSCALL (exit_group, 1, status);
-      INLINE_SYSCALL (exit, 1, status);
 
 #ifdef ABORT_INSTRUCTION
       ABORT_INSTRUCTION;



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