On 11/13, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > But I suspect we have other issues here. Let's suppose we have threads T1
> > (main) and T2. T2 blocks SIGCHLD and does sigwait(SIGCHLD).
> >
> > Now, we send SIGCHLD to the thread group. The signal is lost again because
> > sig_ignored() returns true on T1's side.
> >
> > Is this OK? [...]
>
> Yes, it's OK if T1 has SIGCHLD unblocked. When there are multiple threads
> that either don't block the signal or are in sigwait for it, then it can go
> to any of them and there are no guarantees at all about which. So we
> simply say that the signal went to the thread not in sigwait that has that
> signal unblocked (T1). When it got there, it was ignored. The user
> semantics are equivalent even if that thread never actually woke and
> dequeued the signal to ignore it.
Yes.
I misunderstood the required semantics for sigwait(), thanks Roland.
Oleg.
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