> >> -) Don't use pthread_kill, abolish the pending_handler_buf
> and use a
> >> pipe to send the information from the signal handelr to
> the scheduler
> >> loop.
>
> Can we assume that signal values fit into a single byte?
> That would simplify sending it over the pipe, as we wouldn't need to
> worry about read() or write() getting interrupted by other
> signals and
> things like that. Did I overlook some guarantee that signal numbers
> will be "small integers" or something like that, or are there in fact
> systems with signal numbers > 255?
Could you just use the pipe as a wakeup mechanism, and store the signal
information in another buffer? I imagine we'll probably want to store
more than just the signal number anyway (eg. for SIGCHLD we want to
store the pid of the process that completed).
Cheers,
Simon
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