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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:12:00 -0800
From:      Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
To:        "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: beyond 32 signals
Message-ID:  <199903222212.OAA17322@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
In-Reply-To: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> "beyond 32 signals" (Mar 22,  2:14am)

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On Mar 22,  2:14am, "David E. Cross" wrote:
} Subject: beyond 32 signals
} I have periodically poked arround with moving FreeBSD beyond 32 signals.
} The current idea that wanders through my head every few months or so is
} to create a seperate set of signal routines (sigaction() and friends)
} for handling and registering signals (all new programs would be compiled with
} the newer version (new syscall #), but old programs continue to work.  The
} problem I have come across is sigcontext (a wonderfully usefull structure)
} has a in for the signal mask.  I cannot figure out a way to get arround this
} without having 2 seperate signal processing systems (I really would like
} to avoid that.  Anyone have any ideas on this?

I believe NetBSD now handles more than 32 signals.  You might want to
look at their implementation.

			---  Truck


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