Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> No, after testing more, I think Edwin is right.

Naah. It is true that there is a huge delay in doing

	ls -l /usr/bin

and then pressing ^C, but after having hit my head against this for a 
while, I realized that it has nothing to do with the kernel.

Doing an "strace ls" showed that ls doesn't play any games with signals 
etc, which fooled me into looking for a kernel reason. 

HOWEVER, it looks like at least fedora does a

	alias ls='ls --color=auto'

and it turns out that if you do that --color=auto, then ls will indeed 
catch all normal signals and set a "please stop now" flag, instead of 
dying immediately. The reason is probably to avoiding leaving the terminal 
with some odd color if interrupted in an inconvenient place.

So I was chasing this latency thing totally unnecessarily. It's in user 
space (or at least _my_ particular issue was).

Other user cases may obviously be elsewhere.

		Linus
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