Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938614AbXHLXES (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:04:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933778AbXHLXEB (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:04:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:58388 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763328AbXHLXEA (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:04:00 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Oleg Nesterov X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Davide Libenzi , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Michael Kerrisk , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] signalfd: fix interaction with posix-timers In-Reply-To: Oleg Nesterov's message of Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:05:30 +0400 <20070812170530.GA4302@tv-sign.ru> X-Zippy-Says: Will it improve my CASH FLOW? Message-Id: <20070812230350.A6F874D057D@magilla.localdomain> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 15 This only affects signalfd and so the core change seems ok vs status quo. I think it would be better overall not to have anyone like signalfd calling dequeue_signal in its current form at all. (The function is too much an internal piece of the core signals code. The SIGNAL_STOP_DEQUEUED code applying for signalfd calls is probably another problem, for example.) Thanks, Roland - 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/