From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.comp.gdb.patches Subject: Re: [RFC] Block all async signals used by gdb when initializing Guile Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:37:19 +0300 Message-ID: <83si711oyo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831tel3o68.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpwd26lt.fsf@gnu.org> <201508292104.t7TL42OS020892@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440902253 13433 80.91.229.3 (30 Aug 2015 02:37:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org To: Mark Kettenis Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 30 04:37:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVsUl-0006rB-IO for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVsUl-0007eC-F6 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVsUh-0007dp-7P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVsUc-00032U-9z for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:42234) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVsUc-00030C-2S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:37:14 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NTV00M00J50X600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:37:12 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NTV00MDDJA0TV20@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 05:37:12 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <201508292104.t7TL42OS020892@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:17802 gmane.comp.gdb.patches:110715 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 23:04:02 +0200 (CEST) > From: Mark Kettenis > CC: eliz@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, guile-devel@gnu.org > > I suppose blocking these in the threads that guile starts is necessary > because that is the only way to guarantee that those signals will be > delivered to the main gdb thread on POSIX systems. > > On Windows you probably need to do something completely different. I might be missing something, because I don't see why.