Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:46:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
       Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> Yeah well... I wanted to have the least surprise path... that is,
> without my patch, signalfd will "sometimes" steal the SIGSEGV depending
> on who races to the lock first

Oh, absolutely. I thought we all agreed that Ben's patch was the right 
thing. It's been merged for some time now (even if it hasn't been merged 
for as long as I initially _thought_, since I had forgotten to apply the 
the first time around ;)

So yes, all my emails have been about the _current_ code. 

		Linus
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