Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

signal: send ipi on signal

Open
#116 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c

Research direction

Start by reading the related TODO at kernel-src/sys/signal.c around line 352. The issue says sending an IPI on signal needs more research, but does not define the intended behavior or how to verify it; clarify those before implementation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

enhancement

Not sure if this is the right thing to do. Needs more research

Related TODO

Dominant language
C
Stars
629
Forks
36
Avg merge
1d 23m
Merged PRs (30d)
8

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from Mathewnd/Astral

All issues in Mathewnd/Astral

Similar issues

More C issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.