Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Jamie Lokier wrote:

> I don't buy this argument.  You block signals, do something, unblock
> signals.  There may be a _tiny_ delay in delivering the signal

Tiny?  You said yourself that fork can be expensive.

> - of
> the order of a single system call time, i.e. not significant.  (That
> delay is much shorter than signal delivery time itself).  No signals
> are actually _lost_,

Of course they can get lost.  Normal Unix signals are not queued.

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