On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Richard L. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since I hadn't heard anything in quite awhile, I e-mailed fvdl; he said
> he's doing a different job within Sun now and can't work on this.  But he
> did put the webrev back up at
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~fvdl/siginfo/
>
> and took himself off of 6310532.  So, is someone interested in picking this 
> up?
>
> At the time, the code looked reasonable, although I was in no position to try 
> to
> build it.  I don't know that I am now - it seems to take more than 1GB RAM to
> get a build to complete.  I'm running in VirtualBox; I can maybe get away with
> giving it 2GB, but that's the upper limit, and I don't know if that will 
> work.  I don't
> even want to think about doing a build on my SPARC (which might need updating
> first, it's only at snv_97), notwithstanding that it has 8GB RAM, all the  
> swap I want
> to give it (realistically speaking), and two decent CPUs.
>
> Anyway, the code might need some updating, but probably not much.  The RFE
> has been around for awhile, and since then, at least two or three people have
> asked here about SIGINFO.

Consider using a test farm box -- you can do a nightly build on there,
and grab the BFU archives when done for testing on your own hardware.
I've found they generally work well (I just hope the next SS
transition for ON whenever that happens to be goes better :P)

>
>
>> I finished the SIGINFO prototype a while ago, and
>> figured I'd put it out
>> there so that people could comment if they wanted.
>>
>> It's here: http://cr.grommit.com/~fvdl/siginfo/
>>
>> Note that this is a prototype, the eventual version,
>> while possibly
>> looking quite a bit like this, will of course be
>> subject to ARC review
>> and code review.
>>
>> If you're wondering why there are lpsched files in
>> there: the default
>> VSTATUS character (ctrl-t) is defined as CSTATUS on
>> systems that support
>> it. Unfortunately, lpsched also used a typedef'ed
>> structure in its code
>> by the same name, so I had to rename it.
>>
>> - Frank
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