Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 5/7/07, Davi Arnaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> See Linus's message on this same thread. > > No. I'm talking about the userlevel side, not kernel side.
So you probably knew the answer before asking the question. > If a thread is canceled *after* it returns from the syscall but before > it reports the event to the call (i.e., while still in the syscall > wrapper, thread cancellation rules require a check there) the event is > lost. Exactly. The same happens with sigwaitinfo(), and various other. > Linus was only talking about the kernel side and how in the exit path > such events are not lost. Anyway, we could extend epoll to be mmapable... -- Davi Arnaut - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
