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[Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals.



Ian Jackson wrote:
> I have a patch in our tree which changes the signal delivery mechanism
> for aio completion to use the well known pipe-to-self trick.  I had to
> do this because there were some circumstances where IO completion
> signals were being lost due to races.
> 
> I was planning to send this upstream.  Should I enhance my change to
> do the same to the termination signals too ?

What this would be useful for?  The termination signals usualy one-shot
anyway, so I don't see any advantage in doing the pipe-to-self trick.

cheers,
  Gerd


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