Re: ntdll: enable CreateRemoteThread and RtlCreateUserThread for remote processes

[Dan Kegel]

On 7/16/06, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> On 7/16/06, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> > > Well, kind of.  Signals are only delivered when syscalls return, so
> > > they won't work well if the thread you pick to molest happens to
> > > not make any syscalls for a long time.
> >
> > Signals certainly don't need system calls to be delivered.
>
> I stand corrected.  Signals get delivered on return from a system
> call *or* on return from an interrupt.   (But on systems configured with
> CONFIG_NO_HZ, it could be a while before there's an interrupt, couldn't it?)

I guess the worst case is the signal will be delivered at the beginning
of the next time slice, so that shouldn't be too long.
- Dan