From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [RFC patch 0/3] signals: add rt_tgsigqueueinfo syscall V2 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:57:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20081001095204.343984413@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Ulrich Drepper , Roland McGrath , Oleg Nesterov , linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > [CC+=linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org] > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Changes vs. V1: compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo implemented. Thanks Roland ! > > > > sys_kill has a counterpart sys_tgkill which allows to send signals to > > a particular thread. sys_rt_sigqueueinfo is lacking such a counterpart. > > > > Aside of the asymetry it is a show stopper for migrating applications > > from other unix-alike RTOSes. > > > > The following patch series implements rt_tgsigqueueinfo and hooks it > > up for x86. > > This is an excellent candidate for CCing to the new linux-api@vger > (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ltp/5658/), since it is an API > change. Oops, yes forgot about that. > > Find below the raw documentation. > > Thanks -- I'll work that up into a man page when this gets closer to release. I'll send out test code later this week - once I get a breather from bugs and regressions again. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html