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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating
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To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Anthony Liguori writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals."):
>   
> Then the pipe already has something in it which is fine.  The purpose
> of writing to it is to make sure that it is not empty.  We don't count
> the bytes.
>   

BTW, I don't see your patch yet, but my mail is pretty funky right now.

Then you need a pipe per-signal and you can't accurately simulate 
threadfd() (since you can't communicate siginfo).

> Please consider my patch instead, which doesn't depend on threads and
> is a lot smaller.
>   

I don't see threads as a problem.  Are you concerned about mini-OS?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ian.
>