From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p72AMmi6097630 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2011 05:22:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 06:22:45 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling Message-ID: <20110802102245.GA22979@infradead.org> References: <1311972011-1446-1-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> <1311972011-1446-4-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1311972011-1446-4-git-send-email-wkendall@sgi.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Bill Kendall Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:40:10PM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote: > The multi-stream version of xfsdump for IRIX used sprocs for > threading. When a "thread" exits with sprocs, a SIGCHLD is sent to > the main thread just as if a regular child process exited. A future > multi-stream version of xfsdump would use pthreads, so the SIGCHLD > code is no longer needed. So: > > - No longer register for or handle SIGCHLD (SIGCLD). > - Remove signal handling code for child processes. > - Remove cldmgr_killall() as there are no children. > > Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig does this mean you're actively working on multi-threaded dump for Linux? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs