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-rw-r--r--nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c b/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
index 0fce02a401..e1c79e79b3 100644
--- a/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
+++ b/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c
@@ -34,7 +34,11 @@ __pthread_kill (threadid, signo)
/* We have a special syscall to do the work. */
INTERNAL_SYSCALL_DECL (err);
- int val = INTERNAL_SYSCALL (tkill, err, 2, pd->tid, signo);
+ /* The kernel returns EINVAL for PIDs <= 0. This is not nice since
+ the user would expect ESRCH. Correct it here. */
+ int val = (pd->tid > 0
+ ? INTERNAL_SYSCALL (tkill, err, 2, pd->tid, signo)
+ : ESRCH);
return (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (val, err)
? INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (val, err) : 0);