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:
:You should be able to remove the splhigh() from sigprocmask and run it 
:MPSAFE.  At least, I can't find a reason not to (and it works here, yes).
:
:\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
:

    Tentitively it looks like we will indeed be able to make sigprocmask()
    MP-safe.  I have to check the rfork() case.  I haven't researched why
    splhigh() was being used there in the first place and I have to do
    that as well.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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