This is the mail archive of the
pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
mailing list for the pthreas-win32 project.
RE: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
It's not my code. I'll see if I can track down the author.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of
> John E. Bossom
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:15 AM
> To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
> Subject: RE: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
>
>
> Your contribution has comments that it is licensed under the
> GNU Public License. This, if included in pthreads-win32,
> would upsurp the LGPL license designation of pthreads-win32
> and thus prevent commercial use of pthreads-win32 (something
> LGPL permits provided it is used as a shared library - use of
> the static library renders the license GPL, though) Are you
> the original author of this code? Would you consider changing
> the license? Have you already published the package as GPL?
>
> Ross, comments?
>
> Cheers,
> John.
>
> Quoting "Burkhardt, Glenn" <Glenn.Burkhardt@goodrich.com>:
>
> > I think so. Semaphores might seem out of scope, but they're an
> > integral part of concurrent programming. Signals need to be thread
> > smart, so they're naturally part of a thread implementation.
> > So are timers - attached is a pthreads compatible version of Posix
> > timers, but it's lacking the function of sending a signal
> to a thread
> > when a timer has expired.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org
> >> [mailto:pthreads-win32-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of William
> >> Ahern
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:58 AM
> >> To: pthreads-win32@sourceware.org
> >> Subject: sigaction & pthread_sigmask
> >>
> >> Would it be worthwhile to submit a sigaction, sigwait,
> sigprocmask,
> >> pthread_sigmask patch? Or are signals strictly outside the
> scope of
> >> the project?
> >>
> >> I'm working on sigaction and sigwait implementations--using atomic
> >> CAS operations for async-safety--intended for a portable kqueue
> >> library. But the library depends on
> >> pthreads-w32 anyhow, and it would be cleaner to simply
> patch upstream.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>