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SubjectRe: signalfd API issues (was Re: [PATCH/RFC] signal races/bugs, losing TIF_SIGPENDING and other woes)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:29:23PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> But you use ptrace and don't steal signals with dequeue_signal() on a
> live other task, which is ok.

True. However, with an SMP UML running a threaded app (which is also
threads on the host), if the thread on one CPU gets a signal which
will be nullified (SIGTRAP, SIG*ALRM, later SIGSEGV) and the other
thread continues running, does that count as stealing a signal from
another live task?

Jeff

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