Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:50:40 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: crossd@cs.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beyond 32 signals Message-ID: <199903230450.XAA00449@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199903220714.CAA28422@cs.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at "Mar 22, 99 02:14:45 am"
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David E. Cross said: > I have periodically poked arround with moving FreeBSD beyond 32 signals. > The current idea that wanders through my head every few months or so is > to create a seperate set of signal routines (sigaction() and friends) > for handling and registering signals (all new programs would be compiled with > the newer version (new syscall #), but old programs continue to work. The > problem I have come across is sigcontext (a wonderfully usefull structure) > has a in for the signal mask. I cannot figure out a way to get arround this > without having 2 seperate signal processing systems (I really would like > to avoid that. Anyone have any ideas on this? > Look at what the NetBSD guys did, and figure out if it is applicable to FreeBSD's applications. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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