Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> That is still racy ... if the signal hits between loading that global to
> to pass it to select and the actual syscall entry ... pretty narrow but
> still there.

We don't load it; we pass a pointer to select. It works, but it's hardly
elegant.

-- 
dwmw2

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

---

• Follow-Ups:
  • Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

• References:
  • Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
  • Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
  • Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
  • Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: jnf <[email protected]>
  • Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
  • Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
    • From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

• Prev by Date: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
• Next by Date: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update sparse.txt to list actual location
• Previous by thread: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
• Next by thread: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]