From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 6 12:12:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [209.244.238.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21FE154D3 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dufault@hda.hda.com) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA07976; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:10:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199909061910.PAA07976@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: (P)review: sigset_t for more than 32 signals In-Reply-To: <199909061544.LAA03251@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Sep 6, 99 11:44:31 am" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:10:53 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anything that knows about sigset_t will already be using the POSIX > macros for it, since sigset_t was a POSIX invention. The old > `sigmask'-style functions don't have such an API, so they need to be > left as-is. (Such programs would not know about high-numbered signals > anyway, so this is no great loss.) OK, given this my attempt to force everyone to the POSIX style is misguided. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Safety critical systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message