Re: perf_counters issue with self-sampling threads

[Andi Kleen]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:51:04AM +0200, stephane eranian wrote:
> [Reposting the message because of stupid MIME-encoding error on my part]
> Andi,
> 
> Looks like SIGPROF is calling _group_send_sig_info(), so I
> think it is subject to the same problem.

So sounds like a whole class of signals can't be POSIX compliant.

Likely others will run into the same problem.

Perhaps should define a new sigaction flag for this to make
it all explicit.

-Andi


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