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SubjectRe: Thread implementations...

On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 robey@lag.net wrote:

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> One a side note, signals don't tend to work for large-scale projects
> because there are only N signals. If several libraries need to do
> async I/O using signals, they would have to coordinate somehow to
> pick which signal each will use in place of SIGIO... and that's
> assuming we have the option of choosing another signal besides
> SIGIO (do we? or does Linux only support SIGIO for this?)

the 32 signals limit is gone. Linux 2.1 has a new signal implementation,
with 64 signals right now, but it can be extended to any larger number if
needed. glibc already uses a new signal (not USR1) to do the thread stuff.

-- mingo


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