Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> > Be careful which kernel you're testing on... I would recommend
> > you test against a variety of problem. About this time last year
> > I was working with Gerry on this exact same issue and noticed that
> > the signal behavior was different on a few different Linux kernels.
> > Finding something that works on ALL of them was problematic (and clearly
> > we didn't get all the corner cases handled).
>
> Effectively we added flush_signals() in a case where we don't care about
> any pending signals we had. Suggest a way this might be harmful?
I can't imagine a way (offhand) that this might be harmful, however
that doesn't mean that some kernels are just sufficiently different
to not fix the problem. YMMV. I'm just suggesting caution.
-derek
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