Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode

Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:12:25 -0400


us15@os.inf.tu-dresden.de said:
> Does this work for you?

No :-)

> It doesn't for me, for the reason I described
> earlier.

Indeed. I misread the !capable(CAP_KILL) as "I am not allowed to kill the
other guy", which clearly you are when you just forked it.

This looks like a bug to me. If you own the process, you can send it any
signal you want, so you should be allowed to sign it up for SIGURG/SIGIO via
F_SETOWN.

Jeff

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