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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On 11/23/2010 05:43 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/23/2010 10:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> +static __thread int sigusr1_wfd;
>>> While OpenBSD finally updated the default compiler to 4.2.1 from 3.x
>>> series, thread local storage is still not supported:
>>
>> Hrm, is there a portable way to do this (distinguish a signal on a
>> particular thread)?
>
> You can use pthread_getspecific/pthread_setspecific.

Is it signal safe?

BTW, this is all only theoretical.  This is in the KVM io thread code 
which is already highly unportable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo
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