On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, I. Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote:
> We like to get two new options for kill(1) to pass values to
> sigqueue()'s value parameter (for better realtime signal support):
> 1. New options in kill(1):
> -v <integer> Pass integer <integer> to sigqueue().
> -V <address> Pass hexadecimal value <address> as pointer to sigqueue.
> Address is a hexadecimal value added to the pointer (char*)0, i.e.
> ((char*)0)+address.
> 2. New special variable for trap handlers:
> Signal traps receive a special variable .sh.siginfo.si_value,
> representing always an integer.
>
> Comments?

David, Glenn, what do you think? ksh93 has already good realtime
signal support but getting support for sigqueue() payloads would be
very useful. VERY!

Irek
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