From: Ulrich Drepper This patch adds support for the SFD_NONBLOCK flag to signalfd4. The additional changes needed are minimal. The following test must be adjusted for architectures other than x86 and x86-64 and in case the syscall numbers changed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #include #include #include #include #include #ifndef __NR_signalfd4 # ifdef __x86_64__ # define __NR_signalfd4 289 # elif defined __i386__ # define __NR_signalfd4 327 # else # error "need __NR_signalfd4" # endif #endif #define SFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK int main (void) { sigset_t ss; sigemptyset (&ss); sigaddset (&ss, SIGUSR1); int fd = syscall (__NR_signalfd4, -1, &ss, 8, 0); if (fd == -1) { puts ("signalfd4(0) failed"); return 1; } int fl = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL); if (fl == -1) { puts ("fcntl failed"); return 1; } if (fl & O_NONBLOCK) { puts ("signalfd4(0) set non-blocking mode"); return 1; } close (fd); fd = syscall (__NR_signalfd4, -1, &ss, 8, SFD_NONBLOCK); if (fd == -1) { puts ("signalfd4(SFD_NONBLOCK) failed"); return 1; } fl = fcntl (fd, F_GETFL); if (fl == -1) { puts ("fcntl failed"); return 1; } if ((fl & O_NONBLOCK) == 0) { puts ("signalfd4(SFD_NONBLOCK) does not set non-blocking mode"); return 1; } close (fd); puts ("OK"); return 0; } ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper Acked-by: Davide Libenzi Cc: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/signalfd.c | 4 ++-- include/linux/signalfd.h | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/signalfd.c~flag-parameters-nonblock-in-signalfd fs/signalfd.c --- a/fs/signalfd.c~flag-parameters-nonblock-in-signalfd +++ a/fs/signalfd.c @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_signalfd4(int ufd, s sigset_t sigmask; struct signalfd_ctx *ctx; - if (flags & ~SFD_CLOEXEC) + if (flags & ~(SFD_CLOEXEC | SFD_NONBLOCK)) return -EINVAL; if (sizemask != sizeof(sigset_t) || @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_signalfd4(int ufd, s * anon_inode_getfd() will install the fd. */ ufd = anon_inode_getfd("[signalfd]", &signalfd_fops, ctx, - flags & O_CLOEXEC); + flags & (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK)); if (ufd < 0) kfree(ctx); } else { diff -puN include/linux/signalfd.h~flag-parameters-nonblock-in-signalfd include/linux/signalfd.h --- a/include/linux/signalfd.h~flag-parameters-nonblock-in-signalfd +++ a/include/linux/signalfd.h @@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ #ifndef _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H #define _LINUX_SIGNALFD_H -/* For O_CLOEXEC */ +/* For O_CLOEXEC and O_NONBLOCK */ #include /* Flags for signalfd4. */ #define SFD_CLOEXEC O_CLOEXEC +#define SFD_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK struct signalfd_siginfo { __u32 ssi_signo; _