Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

On 06/19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:14 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 
> > The commited "Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals"
> > (commit caec4e8dc85e0644ec24aeb36285e1ba02da58cc) doesn't implement
> > this.
> 
> Indeed, if you want what Davide described, you need to also change
> signalfd side. The patch I did merely prevents another thread from
> dequeuing somebody else private signals.

Yes I see, but why do we need this change? Yes, we can dequeue SIGSEGV
from another thread. Just don't do it if you have a handler for SIGSEGV?

Oleg.

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