Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and otherwoes

From: Nicholas Miell
Date: Tue Jun 05 2007 - 20:15:46 EST


On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:11 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> > Yes, that's certainly wrong, but that's an implementation issue. I was
> > more concerned about the design of the API.
> >
> > Naively, I would expect a reads on a signalfd to return either process
> > signals or thread signals targeted towards the thread doing the read.
> >
> > What it actually does (delivering process signals or thread signals
> > targeted towards the thread that created the signalfd) is weird.
> >
> > For one, it means you can't create a single signalfd, stick it in an
> > epoll set, and then wait on that set from multiple threads.
>
> In your box threads do share the sighand, don't they? :)
>

I have no idea what you're trying to say, but it doesn't appear to
address the issue I raise.

--
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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