Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-22T22:34:06Z

>
> It does exactly so, please note this chunk
>
> @@ -330,7 +339,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_signalfd(int ufd, si
>
> init_waitqueue_head(&ctx->wqh);
> ctx->sigmask = sigmask;
> - ctx->tsk = current;
> + ctx->tsk = current->group_leader;
>
> > It might well be that signalfd's concept of context is wrong in the
> > first place and it should be attached to processes rather than threads
> > and that made more explicit in the first place...

Yup, looks like I was looking at a wrong patch... I think it's the right
thing to do indeed.

Ben.