Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-10-17 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > With the new code Linus already merged, signalfd does not attach to the > > sighand anymore, so the "orphaned sighand" behaviour is no more there. > > An exec() will carry the fd over, and you will be able to use the fd in > > the same way you did

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hi Davide, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >> Hi Davide, >> >> There were two questions that you overlooked in my earlier draft of the >> signalfd man page. I've revised one of the questions slightly. Could you >> look at these please: > > I think I alread

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-10-15 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hi Davide, > > There were two questions that you overlooked in my earlier draft of the > signalfd man page. I've revised one of the questions slightly. Could you > look at these please: I think I already answered those, no? Anyway ... > .SS exec

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-10-14 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hi Davide, There were two questions that you overlooked in my earlier draft of the signalfd man page. I've revised one of the questions slightly. Could you look at these please: .SS execve(2) semantics [TO BE COMPLETED] .\" FIXME .\" Davide, what are the intended semantics after an execve()? .\

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Kerrisk
> Von: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: [...] > > .\" FIXME Davide, what does the following mean? How (in userspace > > .\" terms) does a sighand structure become orphaned? > > The > > .BR read (2) > > call can also return 0, > > in case the sighand

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-09-27 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > .\" Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > .\" starting from a version by Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > .\" > .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > .\" it under the terms of the GNU General

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Kerrisk
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > uint28_t pad[\fIX\fP]; /* Pad size to 128 bytes (allow space > > additional fields in the future) */ > > I think you mean uint8_t.. Yep -- I sure do thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk mai

Re: Revised signalfd man-page

2007-09-27 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:19:05PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > uint28_t pad[\fIX\fP]; /* Pad size to 128 bytes (allow space > additional fields in the future) */ I think you mean uint8_t.. -- Heikki Orsila Barbie's law: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Revised signalfd man-page

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Davide, Below is the current signalfd man-page. Could you please review to see whether the man page describes the intended implementation, and especially look at a few questions embedded in the page (look for "Davide"). Cheers, Michael .\" Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>