Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:54:25 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>,
       Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
       lse-tech <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>, holt@sgi.com,
       Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com>, Brian Sumner <bls@sgi.com>,
       John Hawkes <hawkes@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] scalability of signal delivery for Posix Threads
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:51:59PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> 
> > At least in traditional signal semantics you have to call sigaction
> > or signal in each signal handler to reset the signal. So that 
> > assumption is not necessarily true.
> 
> If you use sigaction then you get POSIX semantics, which don't have this
> problem.

It's just a common case where Ray's assumption is not true.

-Andi
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