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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signal
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Ian Jackson |
Subject: |
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals. |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:34:05 +0100 |
Jamie Lokier writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle
terminating signals."):
> A quick read of Glibc 2.3.1 source says its AIO code does not change
> the signal mask when it creates an AIO handling thread.
Thanks for investigating that.
> (This might be a Glibc bug - threads you don't know about shouldn't be
> receiving your signals, should they?)
Yes, it's a bug. (I wonder why my test program didn't expose it.)
> That means if it wasn't masked when you issued the first AIO request,
> it won't be masked in that thread.
In practice since we use aio this probably means we can't rely on
signal blocking except for signals which qemu keeps blocked `nearly
all' the time. So pipe-to-self in the signal handler is the way to
go.
> It's quite annoying that POSIX threads doesn't provide any way to say
> "mask this signal in all other threads", which you often want to do
> from a library.
That too.
Ian.
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., (continued)
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Samuel Thibault, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Anthony Liguori, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Jamie Lokier, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Jamie Lokier, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Anthony Liguori, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Ian Jackson, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Jamie Lokier, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Ian Jackson, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Anthony Liguori, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Jamie Lokier, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals.,
Ian Jackson <=
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Anthony Liguori, 2008/08/26
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- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Ian Jackson, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Avi Kivity, 2008/08/26
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- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Ian Jackson, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Avi Kivity, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Julian Seward, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Anthony Liguori, 2008/08/26
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Avi Kivity, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Alan Cox, 2008/08/27
- Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] Handle terminating signals., Avi Kivity, 2008/08/27