Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [patch] required signals | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:04:33 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Sure it is, not even counting libc 5. The kernel has code that is > signal-specific, so it must define the numbering. The kernel itself > uses the numbers in many places. Disagreement over allocation would > be terrible.
The kernel defines an interface to glibc which has in it what the kernel needs. glibc then does any magic it wishes to add things. Obviously glibc generally chooses to tie the two together
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