From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: busyloop in sigchld_handler
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:36:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeabyib0vm.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ejnumf1o.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:34:43 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> If you don't use WNOHANG you open up a race where several processes may
>> have their status changed, but only one signal is sent (non-realtime
>> signals are not queued).
>
> How does WNOHANG protect against that?
It makes it possible to loop around without blocking. On system without
WNOHANG there needs to be other mechanisms to garantee one signal per
child (they probably redeliver the signal as long as such children exist).
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-12 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-11 18:33 busyloop in sigchld_handler Sam Steingold
2007-03-11 19:39 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-11 19:43 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-11 19:51 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-11 20:42 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-11 21:06 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-11 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-11 21:17 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-11 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-11 22:21 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-12 4:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-12 7:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-13 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-11 22:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-11 22:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-12 17:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-12 17:53 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-12 18:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-12 18:57 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-12 19:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-12 19:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-12 21:36 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-03-13 7:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-13 9:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-13 22:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-13 22:28 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-13 22:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-13 23:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 7:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-14 9:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-14 10:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-14 10:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 10:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-14 11:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 11:12 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-14 12:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 10:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 13:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-14 13:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 14:10 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-14 14:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 15:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-14 16:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-16 9:34 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-16 9:59 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-14 3:24 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-14 17:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-26 1:47 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-03-26 2:02 ` Sam Steingold
2007-03-26 2:17 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2007-03-28 10:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-28 15:19 ` Chong Yidong
2007-03-28 15:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-28 15:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-28 15:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-03-28 20:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-03-29 17:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-28 15:30 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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