Subject: Re: COMPAT_LINUX and RT signals
To: Emmanuel Dreyfus <p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/07/2001 15:20:27
p99dreyf@criens.u-psud.fr (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:

> It's not really a NetBSD question, but anyone knows where to find
> documentation about Linux's RT signals? They are supposed to conform to
> a POSIX standard, but I can't find the doc anywhere (web site, man
> page, etc...)

The SUSv2 realtime signal stuff (which I believe is a superset of
POSIX; I don't have my POSIX manual handy) is documented online; start
at http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/realtime.html.

        - Nathan


> When this feature was added to Linux emulation in NetBSD, someone must
> have found how it works in order to emulate it correctly. Hence someone
> must know that here! ;o)

[we added this?]

        - Nathan