RE: A signal fairy tale - a little comphist

[Heusden, Folkert van]

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>        A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently;
>        sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes
>        in large programs.
YOU> Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - 

Exactly. When signals were made up, signalhandlers were supposed to
not so much more then a last cry and then exit the application. sigHUP
to re-read the config was not supposed to happen.

YOU> so instead of trying to patch
YOU> them up, why not think of something better for AIO?

Yeah, a select() on excepfds.