Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/34017: The siginfo_t passed to the signal handling routine is not filled out for AIO Message-ID: <200201182100.g0IL03v21901@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/34017; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: k Macy <kip_macy@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/34017: The siginfo_t passed to the signal handling routine is not filled out for AIO Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:58:40 -0500 (EST) <<On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:53:00 -0800 (PST), k Macy <kip_macy@yahoo.com> said: > Is using SIGEV_SIGNAL with AIO to deliver a SIGIO on > completion fall under the heading of real time > signals? No. However, SA_SIGINFO is. FreeBSD supports SA_SIGINFO (mostly for VM-assisted garbage collectors) but not queued signals, and without queued (i.e., real-time) signals there's no place to hang the value you want to pass to the signal handler. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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