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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: signal-race-fix.patch
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:42:03 -0600
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:

> BTW, here is a new patch that covers that problem.

This still doesn't cut it, next the code in handle_signal() performs operations
on ka->sa.sa_mask if SA_{NOMASK,NODEFER} is not set,
then a recalc_sigpending() is made.

I think we really need to pull the locking up a level or something like that.