On Fri, 2014-11-28 at 14:42 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH 3/6] libxl: events: Deregister, don't just 
> modify, sigchld pipe fd"):
> > On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 18:27 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > We want to have no fd events registered when we are idle.  This
> > > implies that we must be able to deregister our interest in the sigchld
> > > self-pipe fd, not just modify to request no events.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
> > 
> > I think in principal there is now some redundant code in
> > libxl__sigchld_needed which calls modify to set POLLIN if the fd is not
> > registered. I think it's redundant because now the fd is registered iff
> > it is looking for POLLIN.
> 
> You're right.  (Although you mean `calls modify if the fd /is/
> registered'.)

Indeed.

> I wonder if it would be better to leave tidying that up until
> post-4.5, in case we are wrong.

Sure.




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