Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:19:50 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: Revised signalfd man-page |
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> Von: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: [...] > > .\" FIXME Davide, what does the following mean? How (in userspace > > .\" terms) does a sighand structure become orphaned? > > The > > .BR read (2) > > call can also return 0, > > in case the sighand structure to which the signalfd was attached, > > has been orphaned. > > You can remove the five lines above, in virtue of the fact that Linus > merged my simplification patch.
Okay.
[...] > > .\" FIXME Davide, a question: why rename these fields to be > > .\" different from their siginfo_t counterparts? At the very least, > > .\" it would have been nicer to use the same names with prefixes > > .\" such as (say) "fdsi_" (thus, e.g., fdsi_signo); that would have > > .\" made grepping both kernel and userland source code easier > > .\" (e.g, to find instances of "si_signo" in a siginfo_t or a > > .\" signalfd_siginfo structure), and also would have avoided > > .\" weirdnesses like trimming "errno" down to err. > > .\" > > That is fine for me. I'd like ssi_* (for Signalfd SigInfo). Ok?
Yes, equally good. Would you write a patch for this, and CC me please?
Thanks,
Michael
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