From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 1 16:48:23 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B29937B401; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4A8F43E3B; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:48:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 643E3816B7; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:18:18 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:18:18 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Robert Watson Cc: Juli Mallett , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/osf1 osf1_signal.c src/sys/coda coda_psdev.c src/sys/compat/linprocfs linprocfs.c src/sys/compat/linux linux_misc.c linux_signal.c src/sys/compat/svr4 svr4_filio.c svr4_signal.c src/sys/conf files ... Message-ID: <20021001234818.GA99820@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200210011715.g91HFrMn025046@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 1 October 2002 at 13:35:27 -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Juli Mallett wrote: > >> jmallett 2002/10/01 10:15:53 PDT >> >> Modified files: >> sys/alpha/osf1 osf1_signal.c >> ... >> Log: >> Back our kernel support for reliable signal queues. >> >> Requested by: rwatson, phk, and many others > > Thanks. > > The way forward from here is probably to post a description of the > changes, pointer to the patch, and rationale for the changes to arch@, as > well as to do a bit more research on the POSIX realtime signalling > capabilities to place the work in a bit more context. As most FreeBSD > developers probably are unfamiliar with those semantics, describing them > and relating them to these changes in the post would probably be useful > :-). Done correctly, this would also be the basis for comprehensive, permanent documentation on the subject. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message