Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 5/7/07, Davi Arnaut <[email protected]> wrote:
>> See Linus's message on this same thread.
>
> No. I'm talking about the userlevel side, not kernel side.
So you probably knew the answer before asking the question.
> If a thread is canceled *after* it returns from the syscall but before
> it reports the event to the call (i.e., while still in the syscall
> wrapper, thread cancellation rules require a check there) the event is
> lost.
Exactly. The same happens with sigwaitinfo(), and various other.
> Linus was only talking about the kernel side and how in the exit path
> such events are not lost.
Anyway, we could extend epoll to be mmapable...
--
Davi Arnaut
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