Re: [RFC] RT signals

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:40:56 -0700

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 08:07:40AM -0600, yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu wrote:
> How about making sigque simply send a message to a socket?
> This could be done at library level. All we'd need is hooks to do a
> sigaction on messages on that queue which would be useful anyways.

You are thinking way too hard how to keep all functionality
at user level. You should try to implement such a thing and
find out how bloody awful it would be.

Some things -- signal handling chief among them -- belong in
the kernel.

r~

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