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Date:      Sat, 21 Oct 1995 00:08:45 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <ref.tfs.com!julian@werple.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jb@cimlogic.com.au
Subject:   Re: NetBSD/FreeBSD (pthreads)
Message-ID:  <30889C7D.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <199510210233.MAA05412@werple.net.au>

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John Birrell wrote:
> some of the issues we addressed. He pointed out that POSIX requires a global
> set of signal handlers. I guess you'd prefer to stick as close to POSIX as
> you can? We can live with a global set of signal handlers (like we do with
> OSF/1). It just seemed nice to do it thread by thread. 8-(.

Yes, it does.  Any chance of making it a knob, so that the POSIX weenies can get the
global behavior and those needing the other can have that too?  Maybe a sysctl variable,
set to POSIX compliance by default?
-- 
						Jordan



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