On 02/15, Pedro Alves wrote: > > Not sure I'm reading the patch right, but it looks like GDB would > be able to use this as alternative to PTRACE_GET_SIGINFO variant No, it is different. PTRACE_GETSIGINFO reports the siginfo for the signal which was already dequeued (ignoring the fact ->last_siginfo != NULL doesn't necessarily mean we report a signal), while this patch allows to look at the pending signals which were not reported yet. > I wouldn't mind if this was added unconditionally > instead of wrapped on CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE. I agree. If you think gdb can use this new feature, CONFIG_ can go away. > We'd miss the poke > variant, but that looks like something that could be always be added > later. Yes. _POKE_ or _QUEUE_ or _DEQUEUE_, we can add more features if user- space wants them. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
