From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7587 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2005 14:44:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 7539 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Dec 2005 14:44:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from romy.inter.net.il (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:44:20 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-245-91.inter.net.il [84.228.245.91]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id DDI96938 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:44:14 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:55:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20051209143451.GA11917@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:34:52 -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> 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/msg00176.txt.bz2 > 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?