Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:47:22 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] required signals |
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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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