From: Oleg Nesterov After the previous patch SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT implies a pending SIGKILL, we can remove this check from copy_process() because we already checked !signal_pending(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/fork.c | 12 ------------ 1 files changed, 12 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/fork.c~coredump-copy_process-dont-check-signal_group_exit kernel/fork.c --- devel/kernel/fork.c~coredump-copy_process-dont-check-signal_group_exit 2006-04-14 23:44:31.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/kernel/fork.c 2006-04-14 23:44:31.000000000 -0700 @@ -1172,18 +1172,6 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon } if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) { - /* - * Important: if an exit-all has been started then - * do not create this new thread - the whole thread - * group is supposed to exit anyway. - */ - if (current->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT) { - spin_unlock(¤t->sighand->siglock); - write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); - retval = -EAGAIN; - goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespace; - } - p->group_leader = current->group_leader; list_add_tail_rcu(&p->thread_group, &p->group_leader->thread_group); _