Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... | | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | | Date | 25 Jun 1998 20:56:34 -0700 | |
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> posix.1b signals are standard; SIGIO is standard; combining the two
> is an obvious way to implement completion queues with a minimum of
> non-standardness. It's not _completely_ standard, but I don't see
> any fully standard and scalable interface alternatives right now.
It's not a non-standard solution. POSIX.1b explicitly leaves it
undefined whether the "normal" signals can be used with the RT signal
functions or not. So a solution based on SIGIO+RT sigs is allowed by
the standard, it might just be not portable.
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