Re: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-03-10 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:40:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [been on holiday and just found this email... sorry for slow response] Cool. E-mail is much more tolerant of that sort of thing than other media. > I think that your examples make sense, although I need to read them when > I

Re: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-03-10 Thread Nick . Williams
[been on holiday and just found this email... sorry for slow response] On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Rocco Caputo wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:53:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Taking Chris' question further... why not implement wait queues (I'm > > thinking along the lines of NT). A

Re: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-02-29 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 06:53:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Taking Chris' question further... why not implement wait queues (I'm > thinking along the lines of NT). Any session could declare it's interest > on a waitable object... and anyone with a reference to that object could > call w

Re: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-02-20 Thread sungo
On (02/14 06:53), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Taking Chris' question further... why not implement wait queues (I'm > thinking along the lines of NT). +1 on wait queues. i think there are evil and wonderful things that could be done with them. -- Matt Cashner http://eekeek.org eek at eekeek dot or

Re: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-02-14 Thread Nick . Williams
Taking Chris' question further... why not implement wait queues (I'm thinking along the lines of NT). Any session could declare it's interest on a waitable object... and anyone with a reference to that object could call wakeup on it. SIGCHLD handling is therefore just a special case of this - you

RE: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-02-13 Thread Erick Calder
as long as the child's process id remains available in the current place you won't break existing code like PoCo::Child so no objections here :) -Original Message- From: Rocco Caputo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 8:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Proposal:

Re: Proposal: Registered PIDs

2004-02-13 Thread Chris Fedde
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:31:56 -0500 Rocco Caputo wrote: +-- | Proposal: Registered PIDs. | | Currently SIGCHLD is broadcast to every session that registers a CHLD | signal handler. Quite often, this means every session with child | processes receives signals for every other