kern/19402: Signals 127 and 128 cannot be detected in wait4() interface

Valentin Nechayev netch at netch.kiev.ua
Sun May 6 07:10:10 UTC 2012


The following reply was made to PR kern/19402; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valentin Nechayev <netch at netch.kiev.ua>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/19402: Signals 127 and 128 cannot be detected in wait4()
 interface
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 10:09:29 +0300

 > You are correct here now, but not at the time I have issued the original
 > request. Values for SIGRTMIN, SIGRTMAX initially appeared only in
 > version 1.47 (Oct 2005) and was incorrect. Revision 1.53 reduced
 > SIGRTMAX from 128 to 126 exactly concerning this my PR. So, if we stick
 > on treating 126 as maximal possible signal number which doesn't break
 > existing ABI, all seems satisfied and I suggest simply to close it as
 > fixed. No need to change any more.
 
 Forgot to mention _SIG_MAXSIG which also should be reduced if used.
 
 
 -netch-


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