Subject: Re: pthreads
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Pierre Bourgin <Pierre.Bourgin@lip6.fr>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/16/1999 19:09:39
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Christoph Badura wrote:
> Nick Hudson wrote:
> > Actually I think my problem is something to do with signals.
>=20
> That could be.
>=20
> > I checked
> > the FAQ in mit-pthreads and its says that signal/sigaction should be
> > replaced with pthreads-signal/pthreads-sigaction. Well that's what I
> > think it means!?!
>=20
> Well, I dunno what it means. But then I haven't seen a useable
> description of the problem, either. Would it be possible to get an
> exact description of what is wrong and what your environment is?
As I remember, they are two ways to implement signals :
the =ABsystem=BB one (that they must call 'signal'), and the POSIX
one, by the use of the sigaction() function (see sigaction(2)
for further details).
Pierre Bourgin