Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] signals: Support more than 64 signals

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Jan 03 2022 - 20:51:00 EST


On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 01:16:17AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:00:58PM -0800, Walt Drummond wrote:
> > I simply wanted SIGINFO and VSTATUS, and that necessitated this.
>
> Elaborate, please. What exactly requires more than 32 rt signals?

More to the point, which system had SIGINFO >= SIGRTMIN? Or signals
with numbers greater than SIGRTMAX, for that matter?

I really don't get it...