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signal: fix masked stop

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reading the related TODO at kernel-src/sys/signal.c around line 323. The issue gives no reproduction, expected behavior, or tests, so first determine what “masked stop” means in the signal code and identify how the behavior can be verified; done means the TODO is resolved and the corrected behavior is covered.

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bug

Related TODO

Dominant language
C
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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 23m
Merged PRs (30d)
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