Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH 1/1] Use SIGWINCH to trigger priority change in user-space.

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Philippe Gerum wrote:
>> Well, what about merging the solutions: trap the signal from the library
>> constructor by default for people relying on #1, AND document the shadow signal
>> handler for people who can do #2?
> 
> For me, merging the two, would mean keep sigshadow_install called upon
> thread creation, but export xeno_sigwinch_handler to be callable from
> user signals.
> 
> This way, if people install their signal handler before the first thread
> creation, they have nothing to worry about. If they install their signal
> handler at a later time, they have to take care of calling
> xeno_sigwinch_handler and look at its return value.

Jan, do you agree? The main argument is that people may use third-party
libraries such as, say, libreadline or libqt which intercept the
SIGWINCH signal, and that we do not want to recompile these libraries to
run with Xenomai.

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                                                 Gilles.