Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 18:07:11 EST


On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 08:29 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:23 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > That is still racy ... if the signal hits between loading that global to
> > to pass it to select and the actual syscall entry ... pretty narrow but
> > still there.
>
> We don't load it; we pass a pointer to select. It works, but it's hardly
> elegant.

Argh true, blame my own wrapper to select that takes an ulong ..

Who said POSIX was a crap API ? :)

Ben.


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