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SubjectRe: [patch] required signals


On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>
> 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.

There is no disagreement: the kernel specifies the numbers, and user space
lives with them.

The numbers the kernel doesn't care about might as well be defined by
the library.

Linus


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