On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Greg Stein wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 07:02:25PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 6:52 PM
> > 
> > 
> > > >   *) add apr_signal_get_description() to that platforms (which have 
> > > > signals)
> > > >      can portably get descriptions for them.
> > > >   *) move signal stuff from apr.h to (new) apr_signal.h
> > > >   *) os2/signals.c was collapsed into unix/signals.c
> > > >   *) APR initialization will init the signal names (if needed)
> > > 
> > > If we are going to continue to support signals in APR, I would like to
> > > ressurect the fake signals that I implemented on Windows a long time ago.
> > 
> > +1, and I'll look at what more we need to do next week.
> 
> I don't think we want generic signals. What for?
> 
> All that I did was to add a way to portably fetch signal descriptions *IF*
> the platform has them.
> 
> There isn't anything about functionality, and I don't know that we need or
> want them in a portable fashion.

I dislike putting stuff that isn't at all portable into APR.  When removed
a lot of this stuff from APR a while ago because it was so unportable.  If
you look at NSPR, they didn't implement signals, and I believe we should
follow that model.

Ryan

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