Re: pending signal events

2004-04-26 Thread Zefram
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: >Because merely calling asynccheck never eliminates the race condition. >It just makes it "shorter." It does eliminate the race condition, in that it makes ->pending return a list of pending events that was correct at some point during ->pending's execution. Also, the typ

Re: pending signal events

2004-04-26 Thread Zefram
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: >Yah, OK, but is there a real-world justification for running >asynccheck when creating signal watchers? Or is this just a >theoretical cleanliness argument? I haven't thought up a specific example where one would want to have two watchers for the same signal and start th