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Date:      Wed, 03 May 2006 22:54:01 +0300
From:      Alin-Adrian Anton <aanton@spintech.ro>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: which running thread gests the external signal
Message-ID:  <44590A59.7000307@spintech.ro>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0605030848260.6093@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen wrote:
[..]
> 
> Note that sigprocmask() and pthread_sigprocmask() are equivalent.  I
> don't even think pthread_sigprocmask() is in the standard any longer
> (it used to be in an older version of the standard).  New applications
> should be using sigprocmask().
> 

Yes I noticed. However, this just happens to be the implementation 
(probably pthread_sigmask is a wrapper to sigprocmask).

This might not be the case on other OS, so for portability I'll stick to 
the pthread_sigmask in threads, and sigprocmask in single threaded apps.

Thanks,
-- 
Alin-Adrian Anton
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