Subject: Re: pthreads in userland, signals, and itimer.
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/1999 10:55:39
>Ideally, if a program is multithreaded (using our pthreads, once we
>have it) applications and other libraries will not be allowed to use
>these timers/signals.

If that's the goal, does it help to put them in the
reserved-to-implementation namespace: _SIGTHREAD, _SIGTHREADV,
_ITIMER_THREADV, _ITIMER_VIRTUAL?

Then, if anyone beside netbsd library implementors uses them,
its even more clearly their own fault :)