On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > 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? I believe it can be confusing to have private signals dequeued from another thread. The kernel expect those to be dequeued by the target thread. - Davide - 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/
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