Subject: Re: siginfo, signal queues, memory issues
To: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/01/2002 14:27:29
On Dec 1, 11:08am, jdolecek@netbsd.org (Jaromir Dolecek) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: siginfo, signal queues, memory issues

| What do you mean? I agree that it should be possible to get
| 'normal' signals queued, but I do not thing it should
| be done by default, i.e. without SA_SIGINFO requested. Why
| bother eating system resources for processes which don't
| want the queing?

Because it is a pain in the ass to code properly. If you make
two signal delivery paths, then how to you keep track of the
delivery order?

christos