Re: [Qemu-devel] [6343] Fix false positive for AIO on OpenBSD

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

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On 1/16/09, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>
> > On 1/16/09, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
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> >
> > >
> > >  It's just used for assigning the signal value.  We could have a #ifdef
> > > HAVE_SIGEVENT and define it if it doesn't exist--or just change the
> aioinit
> > > structure to use an int instead of the struct sigevent structure.  It's
> > > sigevent for glibc compatibility but that's not really important at this
> > > stage.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Ok. Should kill be used always or just when sigqueue is not available?
> >
> >
>
>  Since we use it for process instead of thread signaling, I think it's safe
> to always use kill().  I'm not completely sure though, having it conditional
> on sigqueue would certainly be the conservative thing to do.

This version uses just kill. Seems to work on Linux and OpenBSD.

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