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Re: Softfloat userland needing to properly deliver SIGFPE traps



On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:06:09AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> I'm thinking the check should go away.

How about the variant below - it allows a process to deliver arbitrary
signals to itself, but only SI_USER/SI_QUEUE variants to foreign processes.

Perhaps the whole part inside the new if () block should be hidden in
kauth instead, but I don't feel like touching that mess right now.

> One thing I'm concerned about is whether this signal will directed to 
> the queueing lwp.  Seems to me that for a synthetic fault like this,
> that would need to be true.

Yes, do we have means to do that already?

Martin



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