From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
davem@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recalc_sigpending() / recalc_sigpending_tsk() ?
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 17:40:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <23167.1015004426@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> of "Fri, 01 Mar 2002 08:49:07 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203010838360.3798-100000@home.transmeta.com>
> So I would suggest solving this problem by just adding something like
>
> /* Block all signals except for mask */
> void sigallow(unsigned long mask)
> {
> spin_lock_irq(¤t->sigmask_lock);
> siginitsetinv(current->blocked, mask);
> recalc_sigpending();
> spin_unlock_irq(¤t->sigmask_lock);
> }
>
> and be done with it. That seems to be what most of the non-signal.c users
> actually _want_.
Maybe you should return the old mask too?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-01 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-28 16:31 recalc_sigpending() / recalc_sigpending_tsk() ? David Woodhouse
2002-02-28 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-28 18:26 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 15:33 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 15:33 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-01 15:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 15:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-01 16:28 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-03-01 17:05 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 17:40 ` David Howells [this message]
2002-03-01 17:43 ` David Woodhouse
2002-03-01 19:01 ` [PATCH] small proposal Martin Dalecki
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