Re: NPTL programming specs?

Jeff Johnson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.phil
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:43:06AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Dave Johnson wrote:
> > Continuing with the initial programming question, is there
> > more information about signals?
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> Read section 2.4 in XSH in the POSIX standard.  I contains all there is
> guaranteed.  A brief, non-authoritve summary is at
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>   http://people.redhat.com/drepper/posix-signal-model.xml

See also linux-X.Y/kernel/signal.c, and understand that "load-balance"
means deliver to process, not thread (afaik).

I do know that SIGCHLD is not delivered to a thread by default. ;-)

73 de Jeff

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Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
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