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From: John Fremlin <vii@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A signal fairy tale
Date: 28 Jun 2001 13:58:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m23d8kiwx0.fsf@boreas.yi.org.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B38860D.8E07353D@kegel.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B38860D.8E07353D@kegel.com> (Dan Kegel's message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:54:37 -0700")

	Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> 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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-28 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-26 12:54 A signal fairy tale Dan Kegel
2001-06-27  3:56 ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-27  6:21 ` Balbir Singh
2001-06-27 18:11   ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-28  3:28     ` Balbir Singh
2001-06-27  9:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-27 18:16   ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-28 12:58 ` John Fremlin [this message]
2001-06-28 16:21   ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-29  8:22 ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-29 11:47   ` John Fremlin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-28  2:49 Daniel R. Kegel
2001-06-29  8:18 ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-29  9:05   ` Dan Kegel
2001-06-28  2:57 Daniel R. Kegel
2001-06-29  8:19 ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-29  9:29   ` Dan Kegel
2001-06-29 18:46     ` Dan Kegel
2001-07-02 22:33       ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-28  3:04 Daniel R. Kegel
2001-06-28 14:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-06-28 20:11 Daniel R. Kegel
2001-06-29  8:31 ` Christopher Smith
     [not found] <fa.d69j5vv.ej8irj@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.h2rpibv.87m5bp@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-28 14:59   ` Dan Maas
2001-06-28 15:21     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29  8:26   ` Christopher Smith
2001-06-29 11:56     ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-06-30 10:02     ` Jan Hudec

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