Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262170AbUKVQzf (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:55:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262220AbUKVQxJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:53:09 -0500 Received: from news.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:56709 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262215AbUKVQwD (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:52:03 -0500 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ray Bryant , Kernel Mailing List , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , lse-tech , holt@sgi.com, Dean Roe , Brian Sumner , John Hawkes Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] scalability of signal delivery for Posix Threads References: <41A20AF3.9030408@sgi.com> <20041122162214.GE21861@wotan.suse.de> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: Clear the laundromat!! This whirl-o-matic just had a nuclear meltdown!! Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:51:59 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20041122162214.GE21861@wotan.suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:22:14 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 21 Andi Kleen 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. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/