Re: [Qemu-devel] [6343] Fix false positive for AIO on OpenBSD

[Anthony Liguori]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 1/16/09, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> >  It's just used for assigning the signal value.  We could have a #ifdef
> > HAVE_SIGEVENT and define it if it doesn't exist--or just change the aioinit
> > structure to use an int instead of the struct sigevent structure.  It's
> > sigevent for glibc compatibility but that's not really important at this
> > stage.
> >     
>
> Ok. Should kill be used always or just when sigqueue is not available?
>   

Since we use it for process instead of thread signaling, I think it's 
safe to always use kill().  I'm not completely sure though, having it 
conditional on sigqueue would certainly be the conservative thing to do.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori