Invoking a signal handler

Hi, I am trying to understand how the kernel invokes the signal handler for a process, to deliver an asynchronous signal posted by another process. I was looking at the sendsig() function which saves the current user context. My question is, when and how does the transition from the kernel mo

Re: Cross-building amd64->i386 fails at RESCUE

On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 00:11 +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:51 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 January 2010 9:52:02 pm Mars G Miro wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Thompson > > wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:35:53AM +0800, Mars G Miro

Re: sysutils/cdrkit update

oops. should've looked at the Makefile of cdrtools-cjk. it's indeed called cjk-cdrtools. ;) attached is the proper diff. sorry for the extra noise. alex --- Makefile.new2010-02-08 02:39:29.0 +0100 +++ Makefile2010-02-08 02:40:27.0 +0100 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ PORTNAME=

Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:05:10PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey typed: > > PS an undefended trade mark loses its right to further defence or some such, > (I'm not a lawyer). It's not a trade mark, is it? It's copyrighted. That's a whole other set of laws. Ruben _

Re: Cross-building amd64->i386 fails at RESCUE

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:51 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 12 January 2010 9:52:02 pm Mars G Miro wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Thompson > wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:35:53AM +0800, Mars G Miro wrote: >> >> Hi List! >> >> >> >>     Has anyone successfully cr

Re: ps "time" field jumps backward

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:45:01PM -0500, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Ideally, top and ps would total up all > > the per-thread CPU counts when displaying the per-process numbers, but it > > doesn't seem to. > It does seem to total them: > $