On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:50:09PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> \> I have been told in private what is signal masks about - just to wait
> >until either signal or given condition is ready, but in that case just
> >add additional kevent user like AIO complete or netwrok notification
> >and wait until either requested events are ready or signal is triggered.
>
> No, this won't work. Yes, I want signal notification as part of the
> event handling. But there are situations when this is not suitable.
> Only if the signal is expected in the same code using the event
> handling can you do this. But this is not always possible.
> Especially when the signal handling code is used in other parts of the
> code than the event handling. E.g., signal handling in a library,
> event handling in the main code. You cannot assume that all the code
> is completely integrated.
Signals still can be delivered in usual way too.
When we enter sys_ppoll() we specify needed signals as syscall
parameter, with kevents we will add them into the queue.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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