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authorDavide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>2007-09-20 12:40:16 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-09-20 13:19:59 -0700
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 3de79016f2a..a01ac6dd5f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ struct sighand_struct {
atomic_t count;
struct k_sigaction action[_NSIG];
spinlock_t siglock;
- struct list_head signalfd_list;
+ wait_queue_head_t signalfd_wqh;
};
struct pacct_struct {