From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23513 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2005 14:46:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 23506 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Dec 2005 14:46:54 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:46:53 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EkjWN-0003F5-Vt for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:46:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:13:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [linux] Always ignore restart/cancellation signals Message-ID: <20051209144651.GA12425@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20051208142420.GA21882@nevyn.them.org> <200512081950.jB8Jo9im029464@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <20051208133824.24b4c680@ironwood.lan> <20051208204301.GA29490@nevyn.them.org> <20051209143451.GA11917@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-12/txt/msg00177.txt.bz2 On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:44:16PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:34:52 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > The problem is that an application may want to register handlers for "a > > few" realtime signals. It seems common to count up from SIGRTMIN, so > > SIGRTMIN is made a runtime constant that skips those signals belonging > > to the implementation. > > Does this mean that ``constants aren't'', like the old joke says? Precisely! Directly above the bit Kevin quoted: #define SIGRTMIN (__libc_current_sigrtmin ()) #define SIGRTMAX (__libc_current_sigrtmax ()) -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC