Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I'm fine with the current approach + doc + xeno_sigwinch_handler.

Jan