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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recalc_sigpending() / recalc_sigpending_tsk() ?
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:40:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23167.1015004426@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>  of "Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:49:07 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203010838360.3798-100000@home.transmeta.com>


> So I would suggest solving this problem by just adding something like
> 
> 	/* Block all signals except for mask */
> 	void sigallow(unsigned long mask)
> 	{
> 		spin_lock_irq(&current->sigmask_lock);
> 		siginitsetinv(current->blocked, mask);
> 		recalc_sigpending();
> 		spin_unlock_irq(&current->sigmask_lock);
> 	}
> 
> and be done with it. That seems to be what most of the non-signal.c users
> actually _want_.

Maybe you should return the old mask too?

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-28 16:31 recalc_sigpending() / recalc_sigpending_tsk() ? David Woodhouse
2002-02-28 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-28 18:26   ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 15:33   ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 15:33     ` David S. Miller
2002-03-01 15:37     ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 15:49       ` David S. Miller
2002-03-01 16:28       ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 16:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-01 17:05       ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 17:40       ` David Howells [this message]
2002-03-01 17:43         ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 19:01       ` [PATCH] small proposal Martin Dalecki

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