more efficient signal blocking for timer threads

due to the barrier, it's safe just to block signals in the new thread,
rather than blocking and unblocking in the parent thread.
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Rich Felker 2011-08-12 01:11:28 -04:00
parent 8b625e45ff
commit b1a7102d83

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@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ static void *start(void *arg)
{
pthread_t self = __pthread_self();
struct start_args *args = arg;
sigset_t set;
/* Reuse no-longer-needed thread structure fields to avoid
* needing the timer address in the signal handler. */
@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ static void *start(void *arg)
self->start_arg = args->sev->sigev_value.sival_ptr;
self->result = (void *)-1;
sigfillset(&set);
pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, 0);
pthread_barrier_wait(&args->b);
__wait(&self->delete_timer, 0, 0, 1);
__syscall(SYS_timer_delete, self->result);
@ -80,7 +84,6 @@ int timer_create(clockid_t clk, struct sigevent *evp, timer_t *res)
struct start_args args;
struct ksigevent ksev, *ksevp=0;
int timerid;
sigset_t set;
switch (evp ? evp->sigev_notify : SIGEV_SIGNAL) {
case SIGEV_NONE:
@ -105,10 +108,7 @@ int timer_create(clockid_t clk, struct sigevent *evp, timer_t *res)
pthread_attr_setdetachstate(&attr, PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED);
pthread_barrier_init(&args.b, 0, 2);
args.sev = evp;
sigfillset(&set);
pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, &set);
r = pthread_create(&td, &attr, start, &args);
pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &set, 0);
if (r) {
errno = r;
return -1;