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Diffstat (limited to 'nptl/nptl-init.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | nptl/nptl-init.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/nptl-init.c b/nptl/nptl-init.c index ea3d1ec..5216ce1 100644 --- a/nptl/nptl-init.c +++ b/nptl/nptl-init.c @@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ sigcancel_handler (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx) struct xid_command *__xidcmd attribute_hidden; -/* For asynchronous cancellation we use a signal. This is the handler. */ +/* We use the SIGSETXID signal in the setuid, setgid, etc. implementations to + tell each thread to call the respective setxid syscall on itself. This is + the handler. */ static void sighandler_setxid (int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx) { |