| To: | Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Aug 2011 06:22:45 -0400 |
| Cc: | xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| In-reply-to: | <1311972011-1446-4-git-send-email-wkendall@xxxxxxx> |
| References: | <1311972011-1446-1-git-send-email-wkendall@xxxxxxx> <1311972011-1446-4-git-send-email-wkendall@xxxxxxx> |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 03:40:10PM -0500, Bill Kendall wrote: > The multi-stream version of xfsdump for IRIX used sprocs for > threading. When a "thread" exits with sprocs, a SIGCHLD is sent to > the main thread just as if a regular child process exited. A future > multi-stream version of xfsdump would use pthreads, so the SIGCHLD > code is no longer needed. So: > > - No longer register for or handle SIGCHLD (SIGCLD). > - Remove signal handling code for child processes. > - Remove cldmgr_killall() as there are no children. > > Signed-off-by: Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx> Looks good, Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> does this mean you're actively working on multi-threaded dump for Linux? |
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