* Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> [140213 21:28]:
> Hi all,
> 
> I think I finally figured out the problem of #877; because it's sending
> alternate signals from threads, some signals were probably arriving
> while the child process' handler was adding another signal to the queue.
> This would in turn cause the position in the queue to get corrupted.
> 
> At least, I think that's what was happening...  Concurrency makes my
> brain hurt.  I ran a few tests and I can't trigger the signal-test error
> anymore.  But that was also the case with my previous patch, so it could
> be dumb "luck".  Let's push it and see if Salmonella starts complaining.
> It would also be great if everyone tests it on their multi-CPU boxes.

Makes sense to me, I have pushed it.

Thank you!



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