Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:02:27 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <15423.21219.384559.197106@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <3C3F500E.A1736EC0@mindspring.com> References: <20020112054041.J3330-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3C3F455B.86856045@mindspring.com> <15423.17965.472722.218250@caddis.yogotech.com> <3C3F500E.A1736EC0@mindspring.com>
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> > > If you think about it a little, since you can't guarantee delivery > > > of signals to particular threads anyway, it makes sense that SIGFPE > > > would not be useful under any circumstances in threaded programs, > > > no matter how you sliced it. > > > > What Bruce is saying is that it's not possible to deliver the signal *AT > > ALL*, let alone in threaded programs. However, he contradicts his own > > statements in later parts of the same email, hence the confusion. > > I think there is still some confusion about "FPE" occuring vs. > "SIGFPE" being raised. > > I think he's saying that it's possible, but never useful to deliver > it. Amazing how we're all spending our time trying to decipher what Bruce said. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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