Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux" | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:15:09 +0200 (MET DST) |
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yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > This call shifts delivered signal numbers up so that > "special" POSIX signals can be delivered to a process.
Kind of a SIGOVERKILL ... yes, that could work.
> Make it a root pthread daemon.
So you need a privileged launcher or VMS-style privileged libraries. Oh dear ...
> Make SIG_KILL still work as usual, with the CLONE_PTHREAD flag > causing all children to be killed too, but with SUSPEND etc > coming in raw.
Hmm, if you can do this, why do you need to special-case the other non-blockable signals then ?
- Werner
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