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Date:      Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:40:18 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: More than 32 signals. Thought?
Message-ID:  <37CA97D2.39BA32F2@scc.nl>
References:  <88584.936022644@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:55:56 +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > The Linux trick I like to add is to have sigset_t always be the last
> > field in structures so that the impact of enlarging sigset_t is
> > minimal.
> 
> On LITTLE_ENDIAN machines?

Both NetBSD and Linux define sigset_t as an array of ints/longs. This can
easily be expanded without having to worry about endianness.

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