Re: POSIX aio vs completion ports

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:31:18 +0200

Chuck Lever wrote:
> there's no good way for the application (or library) to allocate a
> specific RT signal, so there must be some form of "gentlemen's
> agreement" between libraries and application as to which uses which
> signal.

My strategy: search for the first rt signal that's not got SIG_DFL as
its handler.

Imperfect I know but probably better than random() :)

-- Jamie

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