From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 27 17:34:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20423 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:34:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19535 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:30:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (localhost.rwwa.com [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA06099 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:30:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from witr@spooky.rwwa.com) Message-Id: <199804280030.UAA06099@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:30:38 CDT." <199804272230.RAA01545@dyson.iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:30:38 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dyson@freebsd.org said: :- We do need to adopt an extended signal set, and I think that someone :- else has already developed it. SIGDANGER could be valuable. I've always considered this to be one of the most brain dead mis features of AIX, since it invariably picks the process you least want have killed, like the compiler that doing part of your three-hour integration build. Or your emacs. Please don't add this to freebsd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message