On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Francis Jordan wrote:
> 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;
Please be careful with your datatypes when formulating this. If you are
going to pack 32 signals into one field, make it u_int32_t, not int or
long.
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