linux-kernel - Re: pselect/etc semantics

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 18:13:48 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:     "'Eric W. Biederman'" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        "axboe@...nel.dk" <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "dave@...olabs.net" <dave@...olabs.net>,
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        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pselect/etc semantics

On 05/30, David Laight wrote:
>
> 4) As an optimisation a signal that arrives after the timer
>    expires, but before the mask is restored can be 'deemed'
>    to have happened before the timeout expired and EINTR
>    returned.

This is what pselect/ppoll already does.

Oleg.