From 4fd0225e41f0af9ffcee0a9f1e38ce24f2551817 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Dahl <ry@tinyclouds.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Give signal handlers maximum priority

---
 src/node_signal_handler.cc | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/node_signal_handler.cc b/src/node_signal_handler.cc
index 2cac9b179e..7a224f4c9e 100644
--- a/src/node_signal_handler.cc
+++ b/src/node_signal_handler.cc
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Handle<Value> SignalHandler::New(const Arguments& args) {
 
   ev_signal_init(&handler->watcher_, SignalHandler::OnSignal, sig);
   handler->watcher_.data = handler;
+  // Give signal handlers very high priority. The only thing that has higher
+  // priority is the garbage collector check.
+  ev_set_priority(&handler->watcher_, EV_MAXPRI-1);
   ev_signal_start(EV_DEFAULT_UC_ &handler->watcher_);
   ev_unref(EV_DEFAULT_UC);