RE: [BUG?] 2.6.x (2.6.13) - new signals not being delivered to aterminating (PF_EXITING) process.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Oct 11 2005 - 19:10:00 EST


On Maw, 2005-10-11 at 14:35 -0500, Kilau, Scott wrote:
> Also, why did this work under 2.4?
>
> This is why I was wondering if this was intentional, or was just an
> oversight...

It seems that the signal reception in exiting process logic has changed.
Serial depends on the old behaviour and its difficult to see how it
should be fixed and what else would be "correct behaviour" here.

Alan

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