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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:28:27 -0800
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
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> Erm, am I getting confused here?  I'm assuming that you can block
> signals in _only_ the thread that is forking, leaving it unblocked in
> the others.  I'm not very familiar with the current threaded signal
> model - is the blocked-signal mask shared between all of them?

Each thread has it's own mask but that also means that a signal can be
blocked by all threads except the one forking.

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