Is it possible to block pending queued RealTime signals (AIO originating)?

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>> Well, it turns out that your suggestion was correct.
>> 
>> I did some more searching and found another similar suggestion, so I
>> gave it a whirl, and it works.
>> 
>> Now, my problem is that Jeremy Allison thinks that it is a fugly hack.
>> This means that I will probably have big problems getting a patch for
>> this into Samba.
>
> I don't understand why JA thinks this is a hack.  Their current
> method doesn't work, or at least isn't portable.  I've tried this
> on Solaris 10, and it works just as it does in FreeBSD.  Test
> program included after signature.
>
>  $ ./test_sigprocmask
>  Sending signal 16
>  Got signal 16, blocked: true
>  Blocking signal 16 using method 0
>  Handled signal 16, blocked: false
>
>  Sending signal 16
>  Got signal 16, blocked: true
>  Blocking signal 16 using method 1
>  Handled signal 16, blocked: true

Weird - I just tested it on Linux (2.6.18-238.el5) and it works
the same as FreeBSD and Solaris.  Am I misunderstanding something?
Is it possible that Samba's code is broken on all platforms?

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