diff --git a/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.cc b/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.cc
index 9500520..cd94e3b 100644
--- a/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.cc
+++ b/src/client/linux/handler/exception_handler.cc

@@ -105,12 +105,6 @@
 #define PR_SET_PTRACER 0x59616d61
 #endif
 
-// A wrapper for the tgkill syscall: send a signal to a specific thread.
-static int tgkill(pid_t tgid, pid_t tid, int sig) {
-  return syscall(__NR_tgkill, tgid, tid, sig);
-  return 0;
-}
-
 namespace google_breakpad {
 
 namespace {
@@ -400,7 +394,7 @@
     // In order to retrigger it, we have to queue a new signal by calling
     // kill() ourselves.  The special case (si_pid == 0 && sig == SIGABRT) is
     // due to the kernel sending a SIGABRT from a user request via SysRQ.
-    if (tgkill(getpid(), syscall(__NR_gettid), sig) < 0) {
+    if (sys_tgkill(getpid(), syscall(__NR_gettid), sig) < 0) {
       // If we failed to kill ourselves (e.g. because a sandbox disallows us
       // to do so), we instead resort to terminating our process. This will
       // result in an incorrect exit code.