linux-kernel - Re: And now for something _totally

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:43:11 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Subject: Re: And now for something _totally_ different: Linux v2.6.22-rc5

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 17:20 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > 
> > I didn't see anything like that in linux.git, missed Ben's patch to
> the
> > list, and mixed up your description with the original TIF_SIGPENDING
> > work.
> 
> They will still race on the signal queue though. That is, if you
> create a 
> signalfd and three threads are doing a read(2) over it, if a signal
> is 
> sent to the thread group (tsk->signal->shared_pending), only one will 
> fetch the signal. I think that's the correct behaviour anyway.
> Andrew or Linus, did you get Ben's patch?

It might have been missed... I can resend later today.

Ben.


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