>[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
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