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    [PATCH] AYSNC IO using singals other than SIGIO · fc9c9ab2
    Bharath Ramesh authored
    A question on sigwaitinfo based IO mechanism in multithreaded applications.
    
    I am trying to use RT signals to notify me of IO events using RT signals
    instead of SIGIO in a multithreaded applications.  I noticed that there was
    some discussion on lkml during november 1999 with the subject of the
    discussion as "Signal driven IO".  In the thread I noticed that RT signals
    were being delivered to the worker thread.  I am running 2.6.10 kernel and
    I am trying to use the very same mechanism and I find that only SIGIO being
    propogated to the worker threads and RT signals only being propogated to
    the main thread and not the worker threads where I actually want them to be
    propogated too.  On further inspection I found that the following patch
    which I have attached solves the problem.
    
    I am not sure if this is a bug or feature in the kernel.
    
    
    Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> said:
    
    This relates only to fcntl F_SETSIG, which is a Linux extension.  So there is
    no POSIX issue.  When changing various things like the normal SIGIO signalling
    to do group signals, I was concerned strictly with the POSIX semantics and
    generally avoided touching things in the domain of Linux inventions.  That's
    why I didn't change this when I changed the call right next to it.  There is
    no reason I can see that F_SETSIG-requested signals shouldn't use a group
    signal like normal SIGIO does.  I'm happy to ACK this patch, there is nothing
    wrong with its change to the semantics in my book.  But neither POSIX nor I
    care a whit what F_SETSIG does.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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