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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/osf1 osf1_signal.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209301404060.82116-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020930135948.A41526@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Juli Mallett wrote:

> 
> I should mention that signal delivery is now decidedly almost LIFO, and
> will be fully LIFO once everything uses a ksiginfo, and not a signal
> number...  Right now it's almost racey, which leaves it undefined, but
> it's mostly like... [keep in mind the proc lock must be held, so there
> is no race, and it is defined, but...]
> 	1. Check the signal queue...
> 	2. Pop a signal number off...  The most recently recv'd...
> 	3. Dequeue the first signal we find with that signo...
> 	4. Send it...

IF IT'S A tailq, why isn't it FIFO?
would it make a difference to have one queue per type?



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