Re: [linux] Always ignore restart/cancellation signals

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-12-09T14:46:55Z

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 <drow@false.org>
> >
> > 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 ())

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