Re: [patch 2/5] signalfd v2 - signalfd core ...

From: Davide Libenzi
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 16:34:14 EST


On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, David M. Lloyd wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:21 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > int signalfd_dequeue(int fd, siginfo_t *info, long timeo);
> >
> > The "fd" parameter must ba a signalfd file descriptor. The "info" parameter
> > is a pointer to the siginfo that will receive the dequeued signal, and
> > "timeo" is a timeout in milliseconds, or -1 for infinite.
> > The signalfd_dequeue function returns 0 if successfull.
>
> Does this support non-blocking mode? It doesn't seem to at my level of
> understanding anyway. If I use this with EPOLLET for example, I'd
> expect to get a single EPOLLIN when a signal arrives, which would
> indicate to me that I must call signalfd_dequeue() in a loop until I get
> EAGAIN in order to be sure I've consumed all the outstanding signals so
> that the edge-triggered notification can be "re-armed".
>
> Make sense?

Yes, the new version can use the O_NONBLOCK flag and read(2) will return
EAGAIN.
Will post a newer version later, together with timerfd ...



- Davide


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