On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:38:18PM +0200, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:

 > would it make sense to implement sigwait(2) syscall? It's very
 > easy, it's very similar to sigsuspend(2).
 > 
 > In other words, would anyone mind if it would be added? I encountered
 > some software which uses it (pkgsrc/devel/pwlib), which currently
 > depends on sigwait() implementation of unproven-pthreads.

Please do not.  There is a sigwait() in the nathanw_sa branch now,
and we ought to figure out how it should work for a thread vs non-thread
environment.

(Obviously, Nathan had a reason for not making it a system call, and it
would be a good idea to find out why :-)

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