Re: valgrind for WINE

[Alexandre Julliard]

Adam Gundy  writes:
> Solaris isn't an issue here - valgrind only works on linux/x86.

Of course Solaris is an issue, unless you somehow make your patch take
effect only when running under valgrind.
> > Well, sending a signal to a thread from another process is standard
> > Linux functionality, so I'd argue that valgrind should support it one
> > way or another.
>
> which surely implies that it is OK to use kill() instead of pthread_kill()
> as a mechanism for sending signals to a thread... I assume that under NPTL
> pthread_kill() is just a thin wrapper for kill() anyway?

No, it's a wrapper for tkill(), which is the system call to send a
signal to a thread. kill() sends it to the whole process instead.