Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:40:34 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 21:32 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:45:32PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 20:11 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > Change all the #ifdef TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK conditionals in non-arch > > > code to #ifdef HAVE_SET_RESTORE_SIGMASK. > > > > That ifdef was only supposed to be a temporary thing until all > > architectures had implemented TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK anyway. > > > > It looks like only ARM, v850 and m68k which are still missing it; if > > those three architectures can catch up, then hopefully it can die off > > completely quite soon. > > Well, we don't have the pselect/ppoll/epoll_wait syscalls and there's > been no demand for them, so I don't particularly see the point of > going to the trouble of adding support for something no one's > interested in using.
You're not likely to see demand for it from users. I believe glibc will emulate it as best it can (which is not very well), and things will appear to work.... most of the time.
-- dwmw2
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