cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/alpha/osf1 osf1_signal.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 machdep.c src/sys/compat/linprocfs linprocfs.c src/sys/compat/svr4 svr4_filio.c svr4_misc.c src/sys/i386/i386 machdep.c ...

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:36:02PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:

..list of 32 changed files..

>   Log:
>   - Merge struct procsig with struct sigacts.
>   - Move struct sigacts out of the u-area and malloc() it using the
>     M_SUBPROC malloc bucket.
>   - Add a small sigacts_*() API for managing sigacts structures: sigacts_alloc(),
>     sigacts_free(), sigacts_copy(), sigacts_share(), and sigacts_shared().
>   - Remove the p_sigignore, p_sigacts, and p_sigcatch macros.
>   - Add a mutex to struct sigacts that protects all the members of the struct.
>   - Add sigacts locking.
>   - Remove Giant from nosys(), kill(), killpg(), and kern_sigaction() now
>     that sigacts is locked.
>   - Several in-kernel functions such as psignal(), tdsignal(), trapsignal(),
>     and thread_stopped() are now MP safe.

Should we *really* be making large kernel changes like this during a
release cycle??