Jeff Dike writes: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:50:04PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Yeah, synchronous signals should probably never be delivered to another > > process, even via signalfd. There's no point delivering a SEGV to > > somebody else :-) > > Sure there is. UML does exactly that - intercepting child signals > (including SEGV) with wait.
What Ben was talking about was stealing a synchronous SEGV from a task without stopping it, and as Ben says that makes no sense. Intercepting a signal and stopping the task is reasonable, and that is what ptrace does, and I assume also UML. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
