Fix race on fatal signals - #294
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This PR proposes a fix for a race condition that appears when a process has multiple threads.
If we resume one thread and deliver a fatal signal (e.g., SIGSEGV), the kernel may start the thread-group exit before we resume the other threads. As a result,
ptrace(PTRACE_CONT)on those threads fails because they have already begun exiting.What this PR does
PTRACE_CONTfailures.Status
Draft for two reasons: