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From: Linus Torvalds

Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ...

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 - 2:48 pm

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
quoted text> 
> You have the *choice* to do that:
> 
> 1) You want standard delivery only:
> 
>    - Just dont use signalfd
> 
> 2) you want signalfd only:
> 
>    - Do a sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK) of the same mask you pass to signalfd
> 
> If you want both, you can have it. Race free.

.. but maybe with more code and lots of confusion. I'm still unclear on 
any upsides here. 

Choice is good, but only if it's *useful* choice.

		Linus
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[patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Tue Mar 6, 6:36 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Tue Mar 6, 6:43 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Stephen Rothwell, (Tue Mar 6, 9:55 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 12:11 am)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Stephen Rothwell, (Wed Mar 7, 5:38 am)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Mar 7, 9:57 am)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 10:42 am)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 10:50 am)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Wed Mar 7, 1:30 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 1:56 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Wed Mar 7, 2:26 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 2:35 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Linus Torvalds, (Wed Mar 7, 2:48 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Ulrich Drepper, (Wed Mar 7, 3:01 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 3:01 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 3:10 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Wed Mar 7, 3:14 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Wed Mar 7, 3:21 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Ulrich Drepper, (Thu Mar 15, 10:16 pm)

Re: [patch 1/4] signalfd v1 - signalfd core ..., Davide Libenzi, (Thu Mar 15, 11:31 pm)


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