Hello Michael and Oleg, On 7/11/19 6:53 AM, Michal Sekletar wrote:
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Signed-off-by: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man7/signal.7 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7 index 0501fefc5..14c846699 100644 --- a/man7/signal.7 +++ b/man7/signal.7 @@ -426,6 +426,11 @@ Real-time signals are distinguished by the following: Multiple instances of real-time signals can be queued. By contrast, if multiple instances of a standard signal are delivered while that signal is currently blocked, then only one instance is queued. +Note that the +.I siginfo_t +structure associated with the signal already in queue is not overwritten +on arrival of subsequent instances of the same signal hence the process would +receive metadata associated with the first instance of the signal. .IP 2. 4 If the signal is sent using .BR sigqueue (3),
Thanks. I independently verified this also with a small test program. Patch applied, with some some subsequent edits and relocation of the text within the page. Thanks for sending it. Thanks, Michael
