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Date:      Fri, 1 Oct 1999 07:25:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        alc@cs.rice.edu, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com, marcel@scc.nl, nate@mt.sri.com, peter@netplex.com.au
Subject:   Re: sigset_t: a summary
Message-ID:  <199910011125.HAA05080@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> So, to start with issue 2:
> 
> To start with the beginning:
> 
> 1. Should the ucontext_t changes be backed out, or is this the
>    way we would like to go? (but only it better :-)

I think we want to keep the ucontext changes.  SUSv2 requires them
when SA_SIGINFO is set.  They'll also make it easier to support
efficient user thread context switches (with get/set/make/swapcontext),
and also provides a hook for a kernel upcall mechanism (scheduler
activations).

Dan Eischen
eischen@vigrid.com


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