Good.
But the RFE I filed asked to set the number of real time signals to 64
which does not require to change the definition of sigset_t.
Olga
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Roger A. Faulkner
<raf at jurassic.sfbay.sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:11:56 -0800
>> From: "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at Sun.COM>
>> Subject: Re: increase number of realtime signals [PSARC/2010/062 Self Review]
>> To: John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Roger A. Faulkner" <raf at jurassic.sfbay.sun.com>, Jordan.Vaughan at
>> Sun.COM,
> Bart.Smaalders at Sun.COM, psarc-ext at sac.sfbay.sun.com, Scott.Michael at
> Sun.COM,
> Krister.Johansen at Sun.COM
>>
>> On 02/22/10 12:00 PM, John Plocher wrote:
>> > Given Roger's comment that 64 and beyone "breaks binary compatibility"
>> > and should only be done on a major release boundry, isn't *this* the
>> > exact right time to do so? The Solaris10 to OpenSolaris Enterprise
>> > change IMO *is* such a major release point. There won't be such an
>> > opportunity again for decades...
>>
>> OpenSolaris still retains most of the binary compatibility with Solaris
>> Nevada. Unless there is a really compelling reason, I'd be loathe to
>> support any change which breaks existing S10 binaries.
>>
>> The ARCs are still (I believe) operating on the assumption that Solaris
>> Next and/or OpenSolaris represent a "pseudo major" release boundary.
>> This means that we can allow some interface breakage where it makes
>> sense, but we are still expected to try to ensure that most normal
>> applications that work on Solaris 10 and earlier will continue to
>> function on the next release.
>>
>> We actually have more flexibility, IMO, in administrative interfaces
>> such as dladm, packaging, etc.
>>
>> - Garrett
>
> Changing the definition of sigset_t would break all but the
> most trivial existing applications. Almost everything in the
> Solaris world would have to be recompiled.
>
> Roger
>
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