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* [glibc] Linux: Remove exit system call from _exit
@ 2022-08-04  4:19 Florian Weimer
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2022-08-04  4:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=8fabe0e632bd441c760f878d1022c378f04f8497

commit 8fabe0e632bd441c760f878d1022c378f04f8497
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 4 06:17:50 2022 +0200

    Linux: Remove exit system call from _exit
    
    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.

Diff:
---
 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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