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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