Re: Sending Signal to a user thread from kernel

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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Devesh Sharma <devesh28@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> consider a case where a user thread is waiting for some signal, and
> some how from my driver,
> I got the handler of this sleeping thread is it possible to send the
> desired signal to this sleeping
> thread from my driver module, is it safe to do?
>

kill_proc_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, pid_t pid)
( http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.29/kernel/signal.c#L1096 )


> Thanks in advance
> devesh
>
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Rizvan

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