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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/22] Prevent abortion on multiple VCPU kicks
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:44:16 +0200
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On 01/27/2011 03:09 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> If we call qemu_cpu_kick more than once before the target was able to
> process the signal, pthread_kill will fail, and qemu will abort. Prevent
> this by avoiding the redundant signal.
>

Doesn't fit with the manual page (or with the idea that signals are 
asynchronous):

NAME
        pthread_kill - send a signal to a thread


...

ERRORS
        ESRCH  No thread with the ID thread could be found.

        EINVAL An invalid signal was specified.



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