From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:59:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:58:53 -0400 Received: from m874-mp1-cvx1c.col.ntl.com ([213.104.79.106]:19328 "EHLO [213.104.79.106]") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 08:58:49 -0400 To: Dan Kegel Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: A signal fairy tale In-Reply-To: <3B38860D.8E07353D@kegel.com> From: John Fremlin Date: 28 Jun 2001 13:58:03 +0100 In-Reply-To: <3B38860D.8E07353D@kegel.com> (Dan Kegel's message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:54:37 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (GTK) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Kegel writes: [...] > A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently; > sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes > in large programs. Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - so instead of trying to patch them up, why not think of something better for AIO? [...] -- http://ape.n3.net