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pidns: remove now unused kill_proc function
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This function operated on a pid_t to kill a task, which is no longer valid
in a containerized system.

It has finally lost all its users and we can safely remove it from the
tree.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pavel Emelyanov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jul 25, 2008
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/sched.h
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Expand Up @@ -1800,7 +1800,6 @@ extern void force_sig(int, struct task_struct *);
extern void force_sig_specific(int, struct task_struct *);
extern int send_sig(int, struct task_struct *, int);
extern void zap_other_threads(struct task_struct *p);
extern int kill_proc(pid_t, int, int);
extern struct sigqueue *sigqueue_alloc(void);
extern void sigqueue_free(struct sigqueue *);
extern int send_sigqueue(struct sigqueue *, struct task_struct *, int group);
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12 changes: 0 additions & 12 deletions kernel/signal.c
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Expand Up @@ -1228,17 +1228,6 @@ int kill_pid(struct pid *pid, int sig, int priv)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kill_pid);

int
kill_proc(pid_t pid, int sig, int priv)
{
int ret;

rcu_read_lock();
ret = kill_pid_info(sig, __si_special(priv), find_pid(pid));
rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}

/*
* These functions support sending signals using preallocated sigqueue
* structures. This is needed "because realtime applications cannot
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EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dequeue_signal);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_signals);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(force_sig);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kill_proc);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ptrace_notify);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(send_sig);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(send_sig_info);
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