[Fwd: Re: patch to ignore SIGPWR and SIGXCPU (used by pthread s)]

[Bryce McKinlay]

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.