Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls. | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:29:49 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > That is still racy ... if the signal hits between loading that global to > to pass it to select and the actual syscall entry ... pretty narrow but > still there.
We don't load it; we pass a pointer to select. It works, but it's hardly elegant.
-- dwmw2
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