emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: scratch/sigchld-fd 8f0ce42 1/2: Fix deadlock when receiving SIGCHLD


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: scratch/sigchld-fd 8f0ce42 1/2: Fix deadlock when receiving SIGCHLD during 'pselect'.
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:07:15 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.90 (gnu/linux)

On Jan 19 2021, Philipp Stephani wrote:

> Right. It looks like we're not doing that because we want to support
> systems that don't have pselect (and it's gnulib emulation can't be
> race-free).

For those that don't provide a proper pselect, the situation wouldn't be
worse than today.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
"And now for something completely different."



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]