Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 07:10:07 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au> To: FreeBSD.org!jkh@werple.net.au (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au Subject: Re: NetBSD/FreeBSD (pthreads) Message-ID: <199510212130.HAA06205@werple.net.au> In-Reply-To: <30889C7D.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 21, 95 00:08:45 am
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> > John Birrell wrote: > > some of the issues we addressed. He pointed out that POSIX requires a global > > set of signal handlers. I guess you'd prefer to stick as close to POSIX as > > you can? We can live with a global set of signal handlers (like we do with > > OSF/1). It just seemed nice to do it thread by thread. 8-(. > > Yes, it does. Any chance of making it a knob, so that the POSIX weenies can get the > global behavior and those needing the other can have that too? Maybe a sysctl variable, > set to POSIX compliance by default? This is possible because the signal code is layered. > -- > Jordan > -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 9600 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137
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