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From: | Ken Brown |
Subject: | bug#14569: 24.3.50; bootstrap fails on Cygwin |
Date: | Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:51:20 -0400 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 |
On 6/25/2013 10:51 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 06/25/2013 06:55 AM, Ken Brown wrote:I'm puzzled by the asymmetry between block_child_signal and unblock_child_signal. The first blocks SIGCHLD, while the second unblocks *all* signals. Why is this the right thing to do? KenI didn't write that code, but here's my guess.
According to 'bzr log', you introduced those two functions in rev 111081.
Emacs normally runs with all signals unblocked. Unblocking everything is the right thing to do, if there's a bug elsewhere in Emacs that inadvertently leaves signals blocked.
I still don't get the asymmetry. By your reasoning, it would seem that block_child_signal should set the mask so that only SIGCHLD is blocked. And can unblock_child_signal really be sure that there's no good reason for a signal to be blocked?
But I don't want to belabor this. You know much more about this than I do, so if you're sure the existing code is right, I'll drop it.
Ken
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