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Re: Signal handling tune up.
cgf@redhat.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:54:25AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
In any event, I have just found an interesting paper by Ulrich Drepper
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/posix-signal-model.xml
To supplement this, I'd also suggest having a look at the detailed
comments and implementations in the the linux-2.6 kernel. I think they
help to put many of the concepts presented in both that document and the
SUS into some perspective.
Slightly off-topic (I know), but I think these other papers by Uli also
make for good reading (some of the concepts in Chapter 5 could be
relevant to making Cygwin's threading more robust):
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/nptl-design.pdf
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/glibcthreads.html
Cheers,
Nicholas