Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:30:38 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Message-ID: <199804272230.RAA01545@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980427163110.29482B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at "Apr 27, 98 04:34:31 pm"
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David E. Cross said: > I was recenlty shown AIX's SIGDANGER (33). It is a signal that the kernel > issues to [some] running processes when it gets dangerously low on space, > by default SIGDANGER causes programs to die, freeing up memory, system > critical processes and server processes woulf be compiled to ignore > SIGDANGER. This seems like a very good idea, could it be done in FreeBSD? > I remember someone talking about changing the signal structs to be an > array of INTs, instead of just an int to accomidate more than 32 signals. > We do need to adopt an extended signal set, and I think that someone else has already developed it. SIGDANGER could be valuable. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you 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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