linux-kernel - Re: And now for something _totally

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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:42:33 +0400
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
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>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: And now for something _totally_ different: Linux v2.6.22-rc5

On 06/17, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> > 
> > But there's still no way for multiple threads to read from a single
> > signalfd and get their own thread-specific signals in addition to
> > process-wide signals, right? I think this was agreed to be the least
> > surprising behavior.
> 
> Multiple threads can wait on the signalfd. Each one will dequeue either 
> its own private signals (tsk->pending) or the process shared ones 
> (tsk->signal->shared_pending). This will be the behaviour once Ben's patch 
> is applied.

What if we pass a signalfd to another process with unix socket? Which signals
should be dequeued in that case? Only shared ones?

I tried to follow this discussion, but I can't understans why the current
behaviour is bad.

Yes, a thread has to create its own signalfd if it wants to dequeue private
signals. But this is simple and understandable. May be I missed something
else ?

Oleg.

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