From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 22 20:51:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 025531523C for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:51:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 22660 invoked from network); 23 Mar 1999 04:50:41 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 23 Mar 1999 04:50:41 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA00449; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:50:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903230450.XAA00449@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: beyond 32 signals In-Reply-To: <199903220714.CAA28422@cs.rpi.edu> from "David E. Cross" at "Mar 22, 99 02:14:45 am" To: crossd@cs.rpi.edu (David E. Cross) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:50:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David E. Cross said: > 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? > Look at what the NetBSD guys did, and figure out if it is applicable to FreeBSD's applications. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message