Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:11:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/11] signal: Push pid type from signal senders down into __send_signal |
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Use the information we already have to document which signals are sent > to a group of processes and which signals are sent to a single process > or a single thread.
Ahh.
This is much nicer than what I was playing with yesterday, trying to separate out the "bool group" logic in the signal sending code.
I didn't even think to use the pidtype.
In my defense, I would never have done this whole pidtype cleanup that preceded this patch just to fix that odd fork() thing.
As I started reading this patch series, I went from "this seems a bit pointless" to "Ahhh...." and as I did that I started liking the series a lot more.
My initial reaction was "this seems over-engineered" when I just looked at the subject lines in my mailbox.
But as I progressed through the series, I really appreciated it. And this "10/11" was when I went "ok, I don't even need to see patch 11, I know what he's doing.
Anyway, take that as a long-winded ack for the approach and the appreciation of the series.
Of course, that's just reading through the patches, no actual _testing_ of them. But it looks good to me.
Thanks,
Linus
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