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Re: [Fwd: Re: patch to ignore SIGPWR and SIGXCPU (used by pthread s)]
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: "'Per Bothner'" <per at bothner dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:14:10 +1300
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: patch to ignore SIGPWR and SIGXCPU (used by pthread s)]
- References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BEF01@hplex1.hpl.hp.com>
Boehm, Hans wrote:
>The collector has used real-time signals on a number of platforms for a
>while. I think you can change it to do so on linux by setting macros
>SIG_SUSPEND and SIG_THR_RESTART to the appropriate signal numbers. Thus
>changing it is trivial.
>
Would it be better to add a configure test to check whether the system
supports RT signals, rather than a #ifdef with a long list of platforms?
regards
Bryce.