Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

Davide Libenzi
2007-06-19T23:49:18Z

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> The commited "Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals"
> (commit caec4e8dc85e0644ec24aeb36285e1ba02da58cc) doesn't implement
> this.
>
> We can do something like
>
> int signalfd_dequeue_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, sigset_t *mask, siginfo_t *info)
> {
> if (tsk->tgid == current->tgid)
> tsk = current;
>
> return dequeue_signal(tsk, mask, info);
> }
>
> (still I can't understand why should we change signalfd).

Actually, I think signalfd is fine as is, with Ben's patch applied.
Signalfd should only fetch shared signals, not specific ones (in any
case).

- Davide