Common signal handler system call

[mohit89mlnc@gmail.com (mohit verma)]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch <
bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:

> 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.
>
>   thanks  a lot Bernd. I am gonna do it.

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;-)
> --
> Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at
>                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at
>
>


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