Hello Ian, On 09/27/2013 12:04 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: > The select(2) man page was updated about a year ago to clarify the > behavior of pselect in multi-threaded programs. > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/man2/select.2?id=2e72e991695f745d6419feeb77598f61d8c86a52 > > Should a similar update be made to poll(2) for ppoll? Yes. Done. And I made the same change in the description of epoll_pwait(). Thanks, Michael > If I'm reading the kernel source (fs/select.c) correctly, both syscalls > (pselect6 and ppoll) use a (possibly unfortunately named) "sigprocmask" > function to manipulate the signal mask, so their behavior should be the > same in this regard. > > Also, it might be nice to clarify that these changes are clarifications > of existing behavior, rather than new behavior (i.e. clarify the > clarification). The current situation is pretty confusing: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17011460/ppoll-vs-pselect-with-multiple-threads > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
