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Date:      Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:24:08 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Petr Salinger <Petr.Salinger@seznam.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Improve LinuxThreads compatibility in rfork()
Message-ID:  <20110711172408.GX43872@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1107111805350.7134@sci.felk.cvut.cz>
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On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:12:15PM +0200, Petr Salinger wrote:
> >I would instead use a new flag to specify a signal sent on the child
> >death. Like RFTSIGZMB. If flag is not set, SIGCHLD is used. If it is
> >set, the bit slice is used as signal number, 0 means do not send any
> >signal.
> >
> >Please note that the signal should be checked for validity, it must be
> ><=3D _SIG_MAXSIG).
>=20
> We used this:
>=20
> #define RFTHPNSHIFT    24      /* reserve bits 24-30 */
> #define RFTHPNMASK     0x7F    /* for compatibility with=20
> linuxthreads/clone()   */
>                                /* allow to specify  "clone exit parent=20
>                                notification" signal */
> #define RFTHPNSIGNUM(flags)    (((flags) >> RFTHPNSHIFT) & RFTHPNMASK)
>=20
> Therefore signal #128 (_SIG_MAXSIG) cannot be selected.
>=20
> Should the bit slice be 7 or 8 bits ?

I propose to go 8 bits, and add the check to be future-proof.

It seems that we already parse GNU/kFreeBSD brandnote. I think this
could be used to distinguish between old behaviour, that is currently
used by your libc, and proposed new interface, if __FreeBSD_version
is bumped and honored by glibc. You might need to store the brandinfo
somewhere in struct proc or use the separate struct sysentvec.

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