signal dequeue ...

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

I'm just trying to figure out the reason why signal must be delivered one at a
time instead of building a frame with multiple calls with only the last one
chaining back to the kernel.
All previous calls instead of calling the stub that jump back to the kernel
will call a small stub like ( Ix86 ) :


stkclean_stub:
        add $frame_size, %esp
        cmp %esp, $end_stubs
        jae $sigreturn_stub
        ret
sigreturn_stub:
        mov __NR_sigreturn, %eax
        int $0x80
end_stubs:

...
| context1
* $stkclean_stub
* sigh1_eip
| context0
* $stkclean_stub
* sigh0_eip


When sigh0 return, it'll call stkclean_stub that will clean context0 and if
we're at the end it'll call the jump-back-to-kernel stub, otherwise the it'll
execute the  ret  the will call sigh1 handler ... and so on.





- Davide