From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 21 14:34:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA13615 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 14:34:49 -0700 Received: from werple.net.au (0@werple.mira.net.au [203.9.190.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA13610 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 14:34:45 -0700 Received: from cimaxp1.UUCP (Ucimlogi@localhost) by werple.net.au (8.7/8.7.1) with UUCP id HAA06205 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 07:30:59 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199510212130.HAA06205@werple.net.au> X-Authentication-Warning: werple.net.au: Ucimlogi set sender to cimaxp1!jb using -f Received: by cimaxp1.cimlogic.com.au; (5.65/1.1.8.2/10Sep95-0953AM) id AA25252; Sun, 22 Oct 1995 07:10:07 +1000 From: John Birrell Subject: Re: NetBSD/FreeBSD (pthreads) To: FreeBSD.org!jkh@werple.net.au (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 07:10:07 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au In-Reply-To: <30889C7D.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 21, 95 00:08:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > John Birrell wrote: > > some of the issues we addressed. He pointed out that POSIX requires a global > > set of signal handlers. I guess you'd prefer to stick as close to POSIX as > > you can? We can live with a global set of signal handlers (like we do with > > OSF/1). It just seemed nice to do it thread by thread. 8-(. > > Yes, it does. Any chance of making it a knob, so that the POSIX weenies can get the > global behavior and those needing the other can have that too? Maybe a sysctl variable, > set to POSIX compliance by default? This is possible because the signal code is layered. > -- > Jordan > -- John Birrell CIMlogic Pty Ltd jb@cimlogic.com.au 119 Cecil Street Ph +61 3 9690 9600 South Melbourne Vic 3205 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Australia Mob +61 18 353 137