linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH v2] waitfd

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Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:14:01 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
cc:	Scott James Remnant <scott@...onical.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH v2] waitfd

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > Thus:
> >
> >  - child process #1 dies
> >  - main loop woken up by SIGCHLD
> >  - pending status of signal cleared
> >  - enter wait loop
> >  - child process #2 dies
> >  - SIGCHLD pending again
> >  - waitpid() called first time, child process #1 reaped
> >  - waitpid() called second time, child process #2 reaped
> >    (SIGCHLD still pending)
> >  - waitpid() called third time, no child processes remain
> >  - exit wait loop
> >  - back to top of main loop, immediately woken up by pending SIGCHLD
> >  - pending status of signal cleared
> >  - enter wait loop
> >  - waitpid() called first time, but no child processes remain
> >    (we reaped it last time round)
> >  - exit wait loop
> >  - back to top of main loop, sleep
> 
> Scott, I don't really understand why are you trying to explain this
> all to me. I do understand this. At least I hope ;)

Indeed :)
Scott, you're teaching Linux signals to the guy that is likely the 
de-facto mantainer of the subsystem. See the irony?



- Davide


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