Re: Bad Network SIGIO on Linux-2.4.19

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 [e-mail] wrote:

> This is a fix included since 2.4.19-pre5-aa1. 
> 

Well if this is a 'fix' there is a lot of legacy software that
just got broken. It was discovered when the new kernel was booted
on some very reliable file-servers.

> You're assuming that every SIGIO coming your way
> 1) is coming via fd 0
> 2) is a POLL_IN interrupt
> 
> You should either be polling the file descriptor (0) from the signal
> handler, or using SA_SIGINFO (see sigaction(2)) to determine
> which interrupt it is.
> 

I wrote the software to demonstrate the problem, not as an example
of how to poll the keyboard.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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