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    SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes
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    On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 17:11 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
    > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
    >
    > > Yes, that's certainly wrong, but that's an implementation issue. I was
    > > more concerned about the design of the API.
    > >
    > > Naively, I would expect a reads on a signalfd to return either process
    > > signals or thread signals targeted towards the thread doing the read.
    > >
    > > What it actually does (delivering process signals or thread signals
    > > targeted towards the thread that created the signalfd) is weird.
    > >
    > > For one, it means you can't create a single signalfd, stick it in an
    > > epoll set, and then wait on that set from multiple threads.
    >
    > In your box threads do share the sighand, don't they? :)
    >

    I have no idea what you're trying to say, but it doesn't appear to
    address the issue I raise.

    --
    Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>

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