>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Ok... what about the following change: >> >Signal bits 0-63 are used or reserved for "normal" signals and signals >> >from 64-95 are used by realtime signals. Anything signal numbers from >> >96-128 are reserved. >> >This would allow 32 realtime signals (like in Linux) and avoid that they >> >have to move each time a signal gets added... >> >... would that work ? >> >> What the argument in favour of avoiding the realtime signals from >> moving around? Code needs to deal with that anyway; saying that they >> "won't move around for a while" might lure people into using hardcoded >> constants rather than the appropriate constructs. > >Erm... the idea was to make it easier for the kernel people (assuming >that signal realtime numbers in the kernel are hardcoded, right (or am I >wrong (again)) ?) ...
But the kernel is recompiled as a while and the realtime signals aren't really used inside the kernel; the kernel just implements them. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
