Re: signal dequeue ...

Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org)
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:59:17 -0700 (PDT)


On 22-Jun-2001 george anzinger wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>
>> I'm just trying to figure out the reason why signal must be delivered one at
>> a
>> time instead of building a frame with multiple calls with only the last one
>> chaining back to the kernel.
>> All previous calls instead of calling the stub that jump back to the kernel
>> will call a small stub like ( Ix86 ) :
>>
>> stkclean_stub:
>> add $frame_size, %esp
>> cmp %esp, $end_stubs
>> jae $sigreturn_stub
>> ret
>> sigreturn_stub:
>> mov __NR_sigreturn, %eax
>> int $0x80
>> end_stubs:
>>
>> ...
>> | context1
>> * $stkclean_stub
>> * sigh1_eip
>> | context0
>> * $stkclean_stub
>> * sigh0_eip
>>
>> When sigh0 return, it'll call stkclean_stub that will clean context0 and if
>> we're at the end it'll call the jump-back-to-kernel stub, otherwise the
>> it'll
>> execute the ret the will call sigh1 handler ... and so on.
>>
> And if the user handler does a long_jmp?

But if the user handler does a long_jump even the old stub will be missed,
isn't it ?

- Davide

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