Re: [PATCH 3/3] signalfd: add ability to read siginfo-s withoutdequeuing signals (v2)

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Feb 07 2013 - 12:36:16 EST


Andrey, sorry for delay.

As for API, I leave this to you and Michael. Not that I like these
new flags, but I agree that pread() hack was not pretty too.

On 01/29, Andrey Vagin wrote:
> +static ssize_t signalfd_peek(struct signalfd_ctx *ctx,
> + siginfo_t *info, loff_t *ppos, int queue_mask)
> +{
> + loff_t seq = *ppos / sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo);
> + int signr = 0;
> +
> + if (queue_mask & SIGQUEUE_PRIVATE)
> + signr = peek_signal(&current->pending,
> + &ctx->sigmask, info, &seq);
> + else if (queue_mask & SIGQUEUE_SHARED)
> + signr = peek_signal(&current->signal->shared_pending,
> + &ctx->sigmask, info, &seq);
> + (*ppos) += sizeof(struct signalfd_siginfo);

Now that this can work even with normal read(), we will actually change
f_pos. Then perhaps signalfd_fops->llseek() should work too. But this
is minor...

Hmm. but since it works with read(), we shouldn't increment *ppos unless
signalfd_copyinfo() succeeds?

Btw, why do you pass seq by reference? Looks unneeded.

Oleg.

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