Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ...

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> You have the *choice* to do that:
> 
> 1) You want standard delivery only:
> 
>    - Just dont use signalfd
> 
> 2) you want signalfd only:
> 
>    - Do a sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) of the same mask you pass to signalfd
> 
> If you want both, you can have it. Race free.

.. but maybe with more code and lots of confusion. I'm still unclear on 
any upsides here. 

Choice is good, but only if it's *useful* choice.

		Linus
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