Re: another subtle signals issue

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> This should be fine (almost).  POSIX leaves it unspecified whether a
> blocked, ignored signal is left pending or not.  The only thing it requires
> is that setting a blocked signal to SIG_IGN clears any pending signal, and
> sigaction already does that.

Hmm.. We could move the blocking test down, and only consider that for the 
"SIG_DFL" case. 

The function I did matches what the old signal code did, but the more 
signals we can truly ignore, the better. I dunno.

		Linus