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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:26:47 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0
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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > I don't buy this argument.  You block signals, do something, unblock
> > signals.  There may be a _tiny_ delay in delivering the signal
> 
> Tiny?  You said yourself that fork can be expensive.

You can't receive a signal in a thread while it is forking anyway.

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?

-- Jamie
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