[PATCH 3/4] xfsdump: remove SIGCHLD handling

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Aug 2 05:22:45 CDT 2011


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 at sgi.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

does this mean you're actively working on multi-threaded dump for Linux?




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