Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754380AbYJBI63 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:58:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753338AbYJBI6U (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:58:20 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:52479 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753031AbYJBI6T (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:58:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:57:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Michael Kerrisk cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Ulrich Drepper , Roland McGrath , Oleg Nesterov , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/3] signals: add rt_tgsigqueueinfo syscall V2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20081001095204.343984413@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 37 On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > [CC+=linux-api@vger.kernel.org] > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Changes vs. V1: compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo implemented. Thanks Roland ! > > > > sys_kill has a counterpart sys_tgkill which allows to send signals to > > a particular thread. sys_rt_sigqueueinfo is lacking such a counterpart. > > > > Aside of the asymetry it is a show stopper for migrating applications > > from other unix-alike RTOSes. > > > > The following patch series implements rt_tgsigqueueinfo and hooks it > > up for x86. > > This is an excellent candidate for CCing to the new linux-api@vger > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ltp/5658/), since it is an API > change. Oops, yes forgot about that. > > Find below the raw documentation. > > Thanks -- I'll work that up into a man page when this gets closer to release. I'll send out test code later this week - once I get a breather from bugs and regressions again. Thanks, tglx -- 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/