Re: And now for something _totally_ different: Linux v2.6.22-rc5

[Davide Libenzi]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 17:20 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > 
> > > I didn't see anything like that in linux.git, missed Ben's patch to
> > the
> > > list, and mixed up your description with the original TIF_SIGPENDING
> > > work.
> > 
> > They will still race on the signal queue though. That is, if you
> > create a 
> > signalfd and three threads are doing a read(2) over it, if a signal
> > is 
> > sent to the thread group (tsk->signal->shared_pending), only one will 
> > fetch the signal. I think that's the correct behaviour anyway.
> > Andrew or Linus, did you get Ben's patch?
> 
> It might have been missed... I can resend later today.

Try to put a "GPLV3" somewhere in the subject. It might have better 
chances to get through Linus radar these days :D



- Davide


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