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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 11:54:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   *1 routines in /sys/kern
Message-ID:  <199901301654.LAA07382@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199901300730.SAA20522@atdot.dotat.org>
References:  <199901300730.SAA20522@atdot.dotat.org>

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<<On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:00:15 +1030 (CST), Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> said:

> If I split sigaction(), sigsuspend(), sigpending(), sigprocmask() and
> sigaltstack() into front-end and back-end pieces a-la NetBSD so that
> emulator-specific signal semantics can be imposed without totally
> duplicating those routines inside the emulator (like I did with 
> sendit() and recvit() for socket I/O), will anyone complain?

I'd say, ``go ahead''.  But you should probably include a comment in
the source file indicating the reason for the split, so that someone
else maintaining the code can figure it out.

-GAWollman

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