Re: Changeset 0306c5a64775

Will Noble <[email protected]> writes:

> What's missing from this picture is OS signals. The VM recognizes OS signals
> as a type of interrupt, but ROOT-WAIT doesn't check if anything is waiting
> on one. I assumed the reason for this is because, while the run-time system
> maintains queues for the other cases, POSIX maintains sole responsibility
> for signal-waiters, and RTS doesn't call POSIX.
>
> This suggests to me that the RTS should at least keep track of the number of
> threads waiting for a signal, and POSIX could increment/decrement that
> number. Then there could be a function WAITING-ON-OS-SIGNAL? that ROOT-WAIT
> could check.

Yup.  I just remembered this from the deep past when I looked at the
signal docs in the manual - where this problem is documented.  I
definitely want to fix this before the release.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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