From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 30 6:24:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A5814C91 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 06:24:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with ESMTP id PAA23795; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:23:44 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:23:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More than 32 signals. Thought? In-Reply-To: <37CA7B24.EC8539C4@scc.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Basicly what I'm going to do is rewrite the signalling code to use a new > sigset_t and provide new syscalls to use it. The current syscalls convert > between the current and the new types for compatibility. I think I'm going > to borrow a thought or two from Linux which allows further increasing of > the number of signals without rewriting the logic, but that's basicly > undecided yet and open for discussion. How does NetBSD do it? Or more precise: What is wrong with it that you prefer the Linux way? Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message