Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 01:39:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Eugene Panchenko <replicator@ngs.ru> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIGPOLL Message-ID: <3CE21EB9.E77696F4@mindspring.com> References: <web-22588680@intranet.ru>
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Eugene Panchenko wrote: > SysV defines SIGPOLL, as well as Linux, Solaris, and (IIRC) Irix. > However, it is NOT defined in any of *BSD. In Linux it is > simple "#define SIGPOLL SIGIO". Some apps need it, thought. What are > the general policy for this: keep as *BSD and patch every SIGPOLL-app > accordingly, or modify sys/signal.h ? make -DSIGPOLL=SIGIO ? Personally, I'd prefer that the code be properly ported to BSD, but that's just me. PS: Apps that rely on SIGPOLL are usually inherently broken, since programmers who depend on SIGPOLL generally expect it to be an even, rather than a persistant condition, and as we all know, signals are persistant conditions, not events. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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