Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:34:01 -0800 | From | Bruce Perens <> | Subject | Posix says "undefined". Re: Signal left blocked after signal handler. |
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Linus,
Posix says the behavior is undefined. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/sigprocmask.html . I think it makes sense to leave the 2.6 behavior as it is.
Thanks
Bruce
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I personally think it is "good taste" to actually set the SA_NODEFER flag
> if you know you depend on the behaviour, but if there are lots of existing > >applications that actually depend on the "forced punch-through" behaviour, >then I'll obviously have to change the 2.6.x behaviour (a stable >user-level ABI is a lot more important than my personal preferences). > >But if ElectricFence is the only thing that cares, I'd rather just EF >added a SA_NODEFER.. > >
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