From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9464 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2005 18:51:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 9457 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Dec 2005 18:51:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il (HELO gandalf.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:51:47 +0000 Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HFH30011; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:51:23 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-152-80.inter.net.il [80.230.152.80]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CEL95173 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:51:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:20:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20051209144651.GA12425@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:46:51 -0500) Subject: Re: [linux] Always ignore restart/cancellation signals Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii 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> <20051209144651.GA12425@nevyn.them.org> 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/msg00178.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:46:51 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > 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 ()) Then we should probably use these instead.