From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 22 14:12:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAF0150AF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06607; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:12:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA18339; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA17322; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:12:00 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199903222212.OAA17322@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:12:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: "David E. Cross" "beyond 32 signals" (Mar 22, 2:14am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: "David E. Cross" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beyond 32 signals Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message