Re: CPU Hotplug: Hotplug Script And SIGPWR

Rusty Russell
2004-01-21T05:09:18Z

In message <20040121093633.A3169@in.ibm.com> you write:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:43:52AM -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:
> > IFF the app is designed to handle it. The existence of a SIGPWR handler
> > does not necessarily imply that, though. a SIGCPU or something might
> > correlate 1:1 with this, but SIGPWR doesn't.
>
> I agree we should have a separe signal for CPU Hotplug.

Can we add signals without breaking userspace?

If we can, SIGRECONFIG makes sense. If not, I'd rather not have a
signal, rely on hotplug, and look at addding a signal in 2.7.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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