From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 30 7:40:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB32014BE7 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:40:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (i349.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.67.110]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22330; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:40:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA87671; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:40:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <37CA97D2.39BA32F2@scc.nl> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:40:18 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Nick Hibma , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More than 32 signals. Thought? References: <88584.936022644@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:55:56 +0200, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > The Linux trick I like to add is to have sigset_t always be the last > > field in structures so that the impact of enlarging sigset_t is > > minimal. > > On LITTLE_ENDIAN machines? Both NetBSD and Linux define sigset_t as an array of ints/longs. This can easily be expanded without having to worry about endianness. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message