kernel-ark/arch/i386
Steven Rostedt 69be8f1896 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is
not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it.  I've written a
program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had
several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes,
confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled.

The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked.

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is
still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_
NetBSD 2.0 *).

The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of
sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this).

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being
handled is not blocked.

The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to
the way most Unix boxes work.

Unix boxes that were tested:  DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU
3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX.

* NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The
main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like
Linux.  So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that
behaves differently here with #2.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
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boot [PATCH] coverity: i386: build.c: negative return to unsigned fix 2005-06-28 21:20:33 -07:00
crypto [PATCH] arch/i386/crypto/aes.c: fix sparse warnings 2005-06-25 16:24:59 -07:00
kernel [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes. 2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
lib [PATCH] Remove i386_ksyms.c, almost. 2005-06-23 09:45:11 -07:00
mach-default [PATCH] x86_64: CPU hotplug support 2005-06-25 16:24:30 -07:00
mach-es7000 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-generic Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mach-visws [PATCH] visws: linkage fix 2005-08-07 10:00:38 -07:00
mach-voyager [PATCH] i386 voyager: Add machine_shutdown 2005-08-06 12:54:57 -07:00
math-emu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mm [PATCH] Move the fix to align node_end_pfns to a proper location 2005-08-07 10:00:39 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] xen: x86: Rename usermode macro 2005-06-23 09:45:14 -07:00
pci [PATCH] visws: linkage fix 2005-08-07 10:00:38 -07:00
power [PATCH] MTRR suspend/resume cleanup 2005-07-07 18:23:42 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] swsusp: kill config_pm_disk 2005-06-25 16:24:32 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] remove special HPET_EMULATE_RTC config option 2005-08-04 16:27:58 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] i386: add missing Kconfig help text 2005-07-27 16:25:58 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] biarch compiler support for i386 2005-06-23 09:45:07 -07:00