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

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 org

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 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

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: