signal hander patch
Andrew Haley
aph@cambridge.redhat.com
Tue Mar 26 09:11:00 GMT 2002
Boehm, Hans writes:
> Sorry about that. Clearly I should have been more careful about PowerPC.
>
> The problem with using syscall(SYS_sigaction ... ) is that it's
> using effectively using a system call that's obsolete on Linux. I
> believe it exists on X86 only for backward compatibility, and
> that's been the case for quite a while. Glibc hasn't used it for a
> while. It doesn't exist on IA64. It has been replaced by
> SYS_rt_sigaction, which has a different (undocumented?) sequence of
> arguments. I would guess it won't exist in other new Linux ports.
All that this means is that we have some system-dependent code in
libgcj. That's necessary because we're doing something that C++ and C
can't do.
> 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?
Andrew.
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