Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING

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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...>

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING

Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 12:22 pm

On 04/09, David Woodhouse wrote:
quoted text>
> One of the supposed advantages of TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in the first
> place, iirc, was that it allowed us to return a result code other than
> -EINTR as _well_ as restoring the signal mask.

Agreed, good point. ERESTART_ is not that flexible.

Somehow I assumed we will never need something "special" here, this is
not very clever.

Thanks to all!

Oleg.

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[PATCH 1/4] set_restore_sigmask, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 8:12 pm)

[PATCH 4/4] ia64 renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 8:14 pm)

[PATCH 3/4] s390 renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 8:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 3/4] s390 renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Martin Schwidefsky, (Mon Mar 31, 3:53 am)

[PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 8:13 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Mar 28, 8:53 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Oleg Nesterov, (Tue Apr 8, 7:35 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, David Woodhouse, (Wed Apr 9, 7:16 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Oleg Nesterov, (Wed Apr 9, 7:39 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, David Woodhouse, (Wed Apr 9, 12:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Oleg Nesterov, (Wed Apr 9, 12:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, David Woodhouse, (Wed Apr 9, 2:40 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Petr Tesarik, (Wed Apr 9, 8:57 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Roland McGrath, (Tue Apr 8, 3:51 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Apr 8, 10:53 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Paul Mackerras, (Sun Mar 30, 6:53 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 10:24 pm)

[PATCH 1/2] HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 11:14 pm)

[PATCH 2/2] x86 TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 11:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Mar 31, 9:01 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86 TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Roland McGrath, (Mon Mar 31, 3:30 pm)

[PATCH 1/2] HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 11:11 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK, David Woodhouse, (Wed Apr 9, 7:45 am)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK, Russell King, (Thu Apr 10, 4:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK, David Woodhouse, (Fri Apr 11, 9:40 am)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Mar 28, 10:52 pm)

Re: [PATCH 2/4] set_restore_sigmask TIF_SIGPENDING, Roland McGrath, (Fri Mar 28, 11:12 pm)


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