From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23503 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2008 10:29:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 23488 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2008 10:29:13 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:28:55 +0000 Received: (qmail 15508 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2008 10:28:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.local) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 13 Jun 2008 10:28:53 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: SIGCHLD ignored Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:32:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Cc: Vladimir Prus , Hamish Rodda , Daniel Jacobowitz References: <200806112121.06783.ghost@cs.msu.su> <200806130023.45571.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200806131007.53625.ghost@cs.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <200806131007.53625.ghost@cs.msu.su> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806131128.48882.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00238.txt.bz2 A Friday 13 June 2008 07:07:52, Vladimir Prus wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008 03:23:45 Pedro Alves wrote: > I realize that the asserts in sigchld handlers are meant to catch problems, > and we can't remove them -- I just wonder if in this case we have a real > problem due to race. In this case, yes, it's just a protective measure against hitting the wrong signal handler. -- Pedro Alves