linux/include
Davide Libenzi b8fceee17a signalfd simplification
This simplifies signalfd code, by avoiding it to remain attached to the
sighand during its lifetime.

In this way, the signalfd remain attached to the sighand only during
poll(2) (and select and epoll) and read(2).  This also allows to remove
all the custom "tsk == current" checks in kernel/signal.c, since
dequeue_signal() will only be called by "current".

I think this is also what Ben was suggesting time ago.

The external effect of this, is that a thread can extract only its own
private signals and the group ones.  I think this is an acceptable
behaviour, in that those are the signals the thread would be able to
fetch w/out signalfd.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-20 13:19:59 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha
asm-arm
asm-avr32
asm-blackfin Blackfin arch: fix some bugs in lib/string.h functions found by our string testing modules 2007-09-12 16:30:15 +08:00
asm-cris
asm-frv
asm-generic Define termios_1 functions for powerpc, s390, avr32 and frv 2007-09-12 09:08:05 -07:00
asm-h8300
asm-i386
asm-ia64 [IA64] Cleanup HPSIM code (was: Re: Enable early console for Ski simulator) 2007-09-01 02:52:25 -07:00
asm-m32r m32r: Rename STI/CLI macros 2007-09-06 11:10:56 +09:00
asm-m68k m68k(nommu): add missing syscalls 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
asm-m68knommu m68k(nommu): add missing syscalls 2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
asm-mips [MIPS] cpu-bugs64.c: GCC 3.3 constraint workaround 2007-09-19 19:33:14 +01:00
asm-parisc
asm-powerpc [POWERPC] Fix timekeeping on PowerPC 601 2007-09-19 15:26:34 +10:00
asm-ppc
asm-s390
asm-sh
asm-sh64
asm-sparc
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix lockdep, particularly on SMP. 2007-09-16 11:51:15 -07:00
asm-um UML: Fix ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS build botch 2007-09-10 18:58:05 -07:00
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asm-xtensa
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keys
linux signalfd simplification 2007-09-20 13:19:59 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (6220a): fix build error for et61x251 driver 2007-09-14 13:39:12 -03:00
mtd
net [SCTP]: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU 2007-09-16 16:03:28 -07:00
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