Re: A signal fairy tale

John Fremlin (vii@users.sourceforge.net)
28 Jun 2001 13:58:03 +0100


Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> writes:

[...]

> A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently;
> sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes
> in large programs.

Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - so instead of trying to patch
them up, why not think of something better for AIO?

[...]

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