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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Bill Kendall <wkendall@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfsdump: process EPIPE instead of catching SIGPIPE
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 06:15:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110802101530.GB16239@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1311972011-1446-3-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com>

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:40:09PM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote:
> Looking forward towards a multi-threaded xfsdump, it's simpler to
> handle pipe failures as a system call failure (EPIPE) rather than
> through a signal handler which may run in a separate thread. The
> existing error handling code handles EPIPE just fine, so the only
> required change is to ignore SIGPIPE. Some sections of code already
> temporarily ignore SIGPIPE -- they no longer need to do so since it
> will already be ignored.

Looks good, and the less we do with signals, the better.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-02 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-29 20:40 [PATCH 0/4] xfsdump: convert to using the POSIX signal API Bill Kendall
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] xfsdump: remove conditional OPENMASKED code Bill Kendall
2011-08-02 10:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-02 14:07     ` Bill Kendall
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] xfsdump: process EPIPE instead of catching SIGPIPE Bill Kendall
2011-08-02 10:15   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling Bill Kendall
2011-08-02 10:22   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-02 14:13     ` Bill Kendall
2011-07-29 20:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] xfsdump: convert to the POSIX signal API Bill Kendall
2011-08-03 10:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 10:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 12:11     ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-03 12:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 19:28         ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-04  7:53           ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-04 12:35             ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-04 12:37               ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 10:59 ` [PATCH 0/4] xfsdump: convert to using " Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 11:57   ` Bill Kendall
2011-08-03 12:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-03 12:07       ` Bill Kendall

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