Changeset 1e9f8ab in mainline for kernel/generic/src/proc/task.c

Timestamp:

2010-12-29T17:42:42Z (15 years ago)

Author:

Jiri Svoboda <jiri@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

f418e51

Parents:

c41834a

Message:

Add kill command to forcefully terminate a task.

File:

• kernel/generic/src/proc/task.c (modified) (1 diff)

kernel/generic/src/proc/task.c

@@ -360 +360 @@
 }
 
+/** Syscall to forcefully terminate a task
+ *
+ * @param uspace_taskid Pointer to task ID in user space.
+ *
+ * @return 0 on success or an error code from @ref errno.h.
+ *
+ */
+sysarg_t sys_task_kill(task_id_t *uspace_taskid)
+{
+        task_id_t taskid;
+        int rc;
+
+        rc = copy_from_uspace(&taskid, uspace_taskid, sizeof(taskid));
+        if (rc != 0)
+                return (sysarg_t) rc;
+
+        return (sysarg_t) task_kill(taskid);
+}
+
 /** Find task structure corresponding to task ID.
  *