cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_event.c src/sys/sys eventvar.h

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org> [040714 13:38] wrote:
> On 14 Jul, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Doug Rabson <dfr at nlsystems.com> [040714 12:01] wrote:
> 
> >> Seems to me that the best thing to do is to defer the psigio() to a 
> >> taskqueue that will run in a simpler locking environment.
> > 
> > I was thinking that, but I'm worried about "stale delivery",
> > perhaps we need to record the generation count (process start time)
> > in the sigio as well as the request sent, so that we don't send
> > a signal to the wrong process.
> 
> This is already handled in the sigio infrastructure.  Both struct proc
> and struct pgrp have a list of their potential sigio sources. When the
> process or process group goes away, the exit code disables sigio
> delivery.

Yes, but if the delivery of the signal becomes async, then we lose
this.

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