On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >> Would this work?
> >>
> >
> > Hopefully the API will simplify enough so that emulation will becomes
> > easier.
> >
>
> The big question in my mind is how all this stuff interacts with
> signals. Can a blocked syscall atom be interrupted by a signal? If so,
> what thread does it get delivered to? How does sigprocmask affect this
> (is it atomic with respect to blocking atoms)?
Signal context is another thing that we need to transfer to the
return-to-userspace task, in case we switch. Async threads inherit that
from the "main" task once they're created, but from there to the
sys_async_exec syscall, userspace might have changed the signal context,
and re-emerging with a different one is not an option ;)
We should setup service-threds signal context, so that we can cancel them,
but the implementation should be hidden to userspace (that will use
sys_async_cancel - or whatever name - to do that).
- Davide
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