Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:

> Yes, that's certainly wrong, but that's an implementation issue. I was
> more concerned about the design of the API.
> 
> Naively, I would expect a reads on a signalfd to return either process
> signals or thread signals targeted towards the thread doing the read.
> 
> What it actually does (delivering process signals or thread signals
> targeted towards the thread that created the signalfd) is weird.
> 
> For one, it means you can't create a single signalfd, stick it in an
> epoll set, and then wait on that set from multiple threads.

In your box threads do share the sighand, don't they? :)



- Davide


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