Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:46:00 -0800 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4] usb serial write fix |
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On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 09:25:08 -0600, Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 08:03, Paul Fulghum wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 21:36, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > Why testing for signals? Do you expect any? > > > > post_helper can run in a user process as well > > as keventd. The user process can get a signal > > like HUP to pppd.
> Signals sent to one user process can interfere with > the processing of write requests from a different process.
This is a problem only _if_ we apply your patch (which checks for signals), this is why I asked about it in the first place.
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