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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:15:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1118661326.9949.127.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506121725250.2286@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Llu, 2005-06-13 at 01:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 
> > If glibc has a race why not just fix glibc ?
> 
> .. because glibc tries to implement the "pselect()" interfaces that some 
> other OS's implement.
> 
> Whether that is a good idea or not (it's not) is a different issue, but 
> basically it means that apps don't use the longjmp trick exactly because 
> they think pselect() works ok.

Right but why can't glibc be fixed to use the longjmp trick internally.
That way pselect works properly for all applications as soon as the
glibc bug fix is
applied and the vendor/distro/whatever pushes a new glibc package ?

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-13 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-10 22:58 Add pselect, ppoll system calls David Woodhouse
2005-06-12 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13  0:26   ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-13  1:16     ` jnf
2005-06-13  3:26       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-13  6:22         ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13  9:16           ` bert hubert
2005-06-13  9:41             ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 11:05               ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-13 11:14                 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-06-13 11:24                   ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 15:38                     ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:02                       ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 16:10                         ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:29                           ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 16:31                             ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 21:58                               ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 22:01                                 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:36                             ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-06-15 11:36                       ` David Woodhouse
2005-08-05 10:42                         ` pselect() modifying timeout Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-05 14:50                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-05 20:08                             ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-08 11:10                           ` Alan Cox
2005-08-05 11:58                         ` Add pselect, ppoll system calls Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-05 12:49                           ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-25  0:04                             ` David Woodhouse
2005-08-25  0:34                               ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-26  6:46                               ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-13 15:35                 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13  7:23         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-13  7:29           ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 22:56             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-13 11:15     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-06-13 11:27       ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 15:40       ` Ulrich Drepper
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-13 19:38 Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-13 19:57 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-13 20:08   ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-13 20:23     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-14 14:07       ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-14 14:16         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-06-14 14:42           ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-14 14:54             ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-06-14 15:27         ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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