Re: [PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling

[Bill Kendall <wkendall@xxxxxxx>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?
Indeed...I didn't want to come right out and say it, in case I get side
tracked. :) But hoping to have patches up for review in the next week or
two.

Bill