Re: [RESEND][RFC PATCH v2] waitfd

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 13:24:20 EST


On 01/10, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 17:19 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > I am not sure we are talking about the same thing, but afaics poll() +
> > signalfd can work to (say) reap the childs. Actually, ppoll() alone is
> > enough.
> >
> Last time I checked, ppoll() was not actually implemented across all
> architectures in a manner that solved the race it was intended to solve.
>

As I said, this is imho unfair. But I mentioned ppol() "just in case".

My questiong was why do you think that "signalfd() can't currently be
made to work in the way you describe". You have dropped this part to
change the topic?

Oleg.

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