Common signal handler system call

[bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at (Bernd Petrovitsch)]

On Son, 2011-03-20 at 13:08 +0530, mohit verma wrote: [...] 
> I think it should be there in kernel not because it is my idea but for
> good reasons (personally think so). 

... and despite IMHO good reason for not including.
But talk is cheap so prepare and propose a working prototype as patch
and we will see the reaction from others.

I'm not strong against it but I do not see any significant advantage but
at least one open question and the burden to all which do not need/use
it[0].

ad "POSIX compliance": Well, there are lots of system calls (in the
Linux kernel) which are not in POSIX (or SuSv3 or ...) - plain simply
because they are newer than these "standards" or out of the scope of
them.
And (on Linux with and/or without GNU-libc) some system-calls (or
whatever POSIX calls them) are "only" libc functions which are
transformed into other, real existing system-calls.

Bernd

[0]: And that is partly due to my embedded background where you strive
     to make everything small and avoid bloat;-)
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