signal hander patch

Tue Mar 26 10:21:00 GMT 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Haley [mailto:aph@cambridge.redhat.com]
> Boehm, Hans writes:
> > Thus abstractly, it still makes marginally more sense to me to use
> > __libc_sigaction, since libc seems to be the only piece of code
> > that's really supposed to understand the system call calling
> > convention.
>> I disagree. Why should kernel interfaces only be available to the C
> library?
>The only real problem is that the system call interface is not portable, may
lack documentation, and may not have the same parameters as the C library
call. On further inquiry, it does seem to be stable. It looks like we
don't really have a choice except to put system dependent code here, so
maybe this isn't much of an issue.
Hans