Subject: Re: pthreads in userland, signals, and itimer.
To: Dr. Lex Wennmacher <wennmach@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/08/1999 22:53:05
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 10:08:12PM +0100, Dr. Lex Wennmacher wrote:
> What about the following idea: We enlarge the set of signals a process is
> free to use (by, say, SIGUSR3, ..., SIGUSR8) and we increase the number of
> itimers. And we implement a method to allocate (and free) signal/itimer pairs.
sounds like AmigaOS, at least the signal part.
Yes, something like this will be useful.
-is