Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> > > Doesn't help - I may be hit by the signal between the poll() unblocking 
> > > and me having the opportunity to call sigmask().
> > 
> > ppoll(). This is all existing solved stuff.
> 
> Isn't that the inverse of what we want? The application should default 
> to being SIGSTOPpable except in the case of it being in the process of 
> having a specific event delivered.

Would it help to divide the application into two processes, one of 
which receives events and the other does the drawing?

Alan Stern

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