Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2001 18:21:24 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: A signal fairy tale |
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John Fremlin wrote: > > A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently; > > sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes > > in large programs. > > Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - so instead of trying to patch > them up, why not think of something better for AIO?
Keep in mind that SIGRTxxx signals are not just used for AIO.
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