On 08/12, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Untested, user visible change. > > With this patch any thread can dequeue its own private signals via signalfd, > even if it was created by another sub-thread. > > To do so, we pass "current" to dequeue_signal() if the caller is from the same > thread group. This also fixes the scheduling of posix timers broken by the > previous patch. > > If the caller doesn't belong to this thread group, we can't handle __SI_TIMER > case properly anyway. Perhaps we should forbid the cross-process signalfd > usage > and convert ctx->tsk to ctx->sighand.
Sorry, the patch is not complete. I forgot about signalfd_poll() and somehow I forgot to actually tweak de_thread(). I'll send a new one tomorrow. Something should be done for 2.6.23, imho. Oleg. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/