Hi Davide, Working on the signalfd man page, another question comes up:
What are the intended semantics for a signalfd file descriptor with respect to threads? I have not yet tested the behavior, but in any case, I better check what is expected. A signal can be directed to the process as a whole (e.g., using kill(2)), or to a particular thread (using, e.g., pthread_kill(2), or tgkill(2)). So that raises the question: If a thread calls signalfd(), does the resulting file descriptor return just those signals directed to [the thread and the process as a whole], or will it also receive signals that are targeted at other threads in the process? I would hope the former is the case, but I'm not sure what has been implemented (or intended). Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - 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/
