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Re: [linux] Always ignore restart/cancellation signals
> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:46:51 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:44:16PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:34:52 -0500
> > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > >
> > > The problem is that an application may want to register handlers for "a
> > > few" realtime signals. It seems common to count up from SIGRTMIN, so
> > > SIGRTMIN is made a runtime constant that skips those signals belonging
> > > to the implementation.
> >
> > Does this mean that ``constants aren't'', like the old joke says?
>
> Precisely! Directly above the bit Kevin quoted:
>
> #define SIGRTMIN (__libc_current_sigrtmin ())
> #define SIGRTMAX (__libc_current_sigrtmax ())
Then we should probably use these instead.