Subject: Re: POSIX.4 real-time extensions?
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/05/2001 14:10:36
In article <200107051047.f65AlTB09136@saruman.ics.muni.cz>,
Jarommr Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org> wrote:
>
>Other POSIX.4 facilities include SA_SIGINFO, real time queued
>signals, AIO, POSIX semaphores, POSIX queues (the latter two are
>functionally comparable to SysV stuff we have now). Would people
>be interested on cooperation on a project to add those? I plan to
>do some stuff over summer, but it would be preferable if more people
>would work on this, of course.
SA_SIGINFO: mostly done [look at compat svr4]. As soon as kjk commits his
contextsys changes, I'll put it in.
Real time queued signals and AIO, are tough..
semaphores and queues should not be that difficult.
christos