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 _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 406 29th St. San Francisco, CA 94131 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
