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Date:      Wed, 05 May 1999 12:04:59 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Leigh Hart <hart@at.dotat.com>, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ViaVoice... 
Message-ID:  <199905051904.MAA10233@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 11:50:59 PDT." <199905051850.LAA01320@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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You have a good idea go for it . I think that is going to bring a lot of 
headaches
mapping unsupported signals (singals greater than 32) for perhaps the
few applications that use them.




> > 
> > The changes look straight forward except that Linux's _NSIG is 64 :(
> 
> *shrug* so pack/unpack it in the emulator.  Still straightforward.
> 
> > 
> > > > Okay, whats rt_signal I presume that it means real time signals and if so
> > > > do we have a BSD counterpart ?
> > > 
> > > Your access to the Linux source is just as open as mine. 8)
> > > 
> > > > > > 21258 audiog   CALL  #174
> > > ...
> > > > > #174 is sys_rt_sigaction.  Ok, who's up for some more hacking? 8)
> > > 
> > > Basically it's just the old sigaction syscall with an extra argument 
> > > (the size of the sigaction struct).  However, they more or less ignore 
> > > the size (the call just fails when it doesn't match).
> > > 
> > > Look at linux/arch/i386/kernel/signal.c for the old sigaction and 
> > > linux/kernel/signal.c for the new one, and then patch our 
> > > linux_signal.c accordingly.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> > > \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> > > \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> > > \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >  Amancio Hasty
> >  hasty@star-gate.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
> 

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