On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Francis Jordan wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > [cc'd to David E. Cross ([email protected]) and James Raynard > > ([email protected])] > > > > I'm thinking about extending the number of signals. I like your thoughts > > and opinions. > > > > Basicly what I'm going to do is rewrite the signalling code to use a new > > sigset_t and provide new syscalls to use it. The current syscalls convert > > between the current and the new types for compatibility. I think I'm going > > to borrow a thought or two from Linux which allows further increasing of > > the number of signals without rewriting the logic, but that's basicly > > undecided yet and open for discussion. > > > Do as NetBSD does to remain compatible? Or borrow a few thoughts from > Solaris, which also has 128 signals: > > typedef struct { /* signal set type */ > unsigned long __sigbits[4]; > } sigset_t;
Please be careful with your datatypes when formulating this. If you are going to pack 32 signals into one field, make it u_int32_t, not int or long. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [email protected] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
