[Gc] STW usage of signals

Rodrigo Kumpera <[email protected]> Sat, 8 Nov 2014 12:16:07 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.garbage-collection.boehmgc
Message-ID <CACmR+BAuvdAoU7=6Jn03xHXcfnxE1n-dPCsfyfpjcJA3C25JLA@mail.gmail.com>
Hey Guys,

The mono VM is running short of usable signals on some targets and we're
going to do signal multiplexing.

We use the same signal based suspend/resume mechanism as bdwgc and I've
been wondering on why sigwait was used instead of a semaphore to implement
resume.

This decision was made way way in the past but maybe someone still remember
the rationale for it?

--
Rodrigo

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