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From: Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:26:09 +0000
Subject: Re: [GIT] Experimental threaded udev
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On 6/2/09, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 21:39, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 18:24, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think the signal handler should be doing list traversal, in case
>>> it
>>> interrupts list manipulation in the main loop.  Or perhaps the main loop
>>> should only allow signals during ppoll().
>>
>> Make sense. we can block them during list mangling, or just go for
>> signalfd, and convert all the signal handling to it.
>
> Here is a version that uses signalfd(), and a socketpair() from the
> workers to pass data back. Same numbers so far, but the code looks a
> lot simpler.
>
> Kay

Yes, that looks great.

Alan