Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behaviour with respect to

the alternate signal stack.
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Michael Kerrisk 2006-03-21 04:13:05 +00:00
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@ -243,11 +243,6 @@ these signals cannot be used in applications.
NPTL still has a few non-conformances with POSIX.1:
.IP \- 3
Threads have distinct alternate signal stack settings.
However, a new thread's alternate signal stack settings
are copied from the the thread that created it, so that
the threads initially share an alternate signal stack.
.IP \- 3
Threads do not share a common nice value.
.PP
Some NPTL non-conformances only occur with older kernels:
@ -270,6 +265,12 @@ Only the main thread is permitted to make the process into a
process group leader using
.BR setpgid (2)
(fixed in kernel 2.6.16).
.IP \- 3
Threads have distinct alternate signal stack settings.
However, a new thread's alternate signal stack settings
are copied from the thread that created it, so that
the threads initially share an alternate signal stack
(fixed in kernel 2.6.16).
.SS "Determining the Threading Implementation"
Since glibc 2.3.2, the
.BR getconf (1)