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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:51:59 +0000
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] scalability of signal delivery for Posix Threads
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In-Reply-To: <20041122162214.GE21861@wotan.suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>, lse-tech <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>, holt@sgi.com, Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com>, Brian Sumner <bls@sgi.com>, John Hawkes <hawkes@tomahawk.engr.sgi.com>

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> At least in traditional signal semantics you have to call sigaction
> or signal in each signal handler to reset the signal. So that=20
> assumption is not necessarily true.

If you use sigaction then you get POSIX semantics, which don't have this
problem.

Andreas.

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