Re: siginfo_t content

2019-02-15 Thread Christian Barthel
John Baldwin writes: > On 2/15/19 8:43 AM, Christian Barthel wrote: >> John Baldwin writes: >> >>> See the siginfo(3) manpage. SI_TIMER is described there as: >>> >>> SI_TIMER signal generated by expiration of a >>> timer set by timer_settime(2) >>> >>>

Re: siginfo_t content

2019-02-15 Thread John Baldwin
On 2/15/19 8:43 AM, Christian Barthel wrote: > John Baldwin writes: > >> See the siginfo(3) manpage. SI_TIMER is described there as: >> >> SI_TIMER signal generated by expiration of a >> timer set by timer_settime(2) >> >> It is not for setitimer. Simila

Re: siginfo_t content

2019-02-15 Thread Christian Barthel
John Baldwin writes: > See the siginfo(3) manpage. SI_TIMER is described there as: > > SI_TIMER signal generated by expiration of a > timer set by timer_settime(2) > > It is not for setitimer. Similarly, si_addr is usually only specified for > synchronou

Re: siginfo_t content

2019-02-15 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 4:50 AM Christian Barthel wrote: > Hello, > I am interested in the historical development of the siginfo_t > record. I hope, this is the correct mailinglist and there are > still readers on it. > The historical development of siginfo_t is actually quite interesting. I'm

Re: siginfo_t content

2019-02-14 Thread John Baldwin
On 2/14/19 1:50 AM, Christian Barthel wrote: > Hello, > I am interested in the historical development of the siginfo_t > record. I hope, this is the correct mailinglist and there are > still readers on it. > > I've tried to write a very simple and minimalistic profiler for a > single threaded a

siginfo_t content

2019-02-14 Thread Christian Barthel
Hello, I am interested in the historical development of the siginfo_t record. I hope, this is the correct mailinglist and there are still readers on it. I've tried to write a very simple and minimalistic profiler for a single threaded application by using setitimer(2) and SIGPROF signal. When