Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

[Davide Libenzi]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> The commited "Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals"
> (commit caec4e8dc85e0644ec24aeb36285e1ba02da58cc) doesn't implement
> this.
> 
> We can do something like
> 
> 	int signalfd_dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
> 	{
> 		if (tsk->tgid == current->tgid)
> 			tsk = current;
> 
> 		return dequeue_signal(tsk, mask, info);
> 	}
> 
> (still I can't understand why should we change signalfd).

Actually, I think signalfd is fine as is, with Ben's patch applied. 
Signalfd should only fetch shared signals, not specific ones (in any 
case).



- Davide


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