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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:39:39 +0000
Subject: Re: [GIT] Experimental threaded udev
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On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 18:24, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> wr=
ote:

> I don't think the signal handler should be doing list traversal, in case =
it
> interrupts list manipulation in the main loop. =C2=A0Or 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.

Thanks,
Kay