Re: (P)review: sigset_t for more than 32 signals

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 15:54:45 +0200, Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> You first need to get rid of any code that assumes that siget_t is an
> (unsigned) integer. Use macros to abstract the access to the new sigset_t
> so that you don't replace one assumption with the other...

Anything that knows about sigset_t will already be using the POSIX
macros for it, since sigset_t was a POSIX invention.  The old
`sigmask'-style functions don't have such an API, so they need to be
left as-is.  (Such programs would not know about high-numbered signals
anyway, so this is no great loss.)

Peter D. and I have been discussing this topic over the past few days,
and I was about to sit down and do the implementation when I saw your
message.  I'd appreciate it if you can hold off on yours for a bit.

-GAWollman

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