Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 12 Feb 2003 13:19:56 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: another subtle signals issue |
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On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Your patch as is won't fix the ignored-SIG_DFL-interrupts bug in the MT > case. That is, in __group_send_sig_info if P blocks the signal but some > other thread does not, then the that thread will get woken up and be > subject to all those problems.
Yeah. There's another issue too, which is the "preferred thread" thing. We should probably _prefer_ threads that are interruptible as opposed to threads that are in disk wait, the same way we prefer threads that are not stopped. It might improve throughput.
Linus
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