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* [PATCH] Linux: Remove exit system call from _exit
@ 2022-08-03 15:53 Florian Weimer
  2022-08-03 16:58 ` H.J. Lu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Florian Weimer @ 2022-08-03 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libc-alpha

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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* Re: [PATCH] Linux: Remove exit system call from _exit
  2022-08-03 15:53 [PATCH] Linux: Remove exit system call from _exit Florian Weimer
@ 2022-08-03 16:58 ` H.J. Lu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: H.J. Lu @ 2022-08-03 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Florian Weimer; +Cc: GNU C Library

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 8:53 AM Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> 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;
>

LGTM.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.

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