Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> [cc'd to David E. Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and James Raynard
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])]
>
> I'm thinking about extending the number of signals. I like your thoughts
> and opinions.
>
> Basicly what I'm going to do is rewrite the signalling code to use a new
> sigset_t and provide new syscalls to use it. The current syscalls convert
> between the current and the new types for compatibility. I think I'm going
> to borrow a thought or two from Linux which allows further increasing of
> the number of signals without rewriting the logic, but that's basicly
> undecided yet and open for discussion.
Do as NetBSD does to remain compatible? Or borrow a few thoughts from
Solaris, which also has 128 signals:
typedef struct { /* signal set type */
unsigned long __sigbits[4];
} sigset_t;
Frank
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