Re: A signal fairy tale

[Jamie Lokier]

John Fremlin wrote:
> >        A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently;
> >        sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes
> >        in large programs.
> 
> Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - so instead of trying to patch
> them up, why not think of something better for AIO?

Keep in mind that SIGRTxxx signals are not just used for AIO.

-- Jamie