Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: 'more signals' patch, 2.1.33 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 15 Apr 1997 02:29:03 +0200 |
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at> writes:
> - big assumption: signal #32 is abused as an 'extended' bit. Thus no need > to push the new signal code down to the assembly level and deep into > kernel drivers. 'extended signals' can only be sent between processes, > the first 31 signals serve as 'kernel-internal fast signals' > > I'm not sure what POSIX says about this, maybe it's impossible to do it > this way.
A quick note: this is perfectly legal and it is what I think the POSIX people had in mind. The use of real-time signals with the old signal functions (i.e., those not defined in POSIX.1b) in left undefined.
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