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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:47:21 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: *1 routines in /sys/kern 
Message-ID:  <199901301847.KAA01004@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:00:15 %2B1030." <199901300730.SAA20522@atdot.dotat.org> 

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> 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 second Garrett on this; as long as it's documented somewhere 
that the *1 routines are the "backends", it sounds eminently sensible.

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