Re: Some introductory docs about C level threading

[tomas]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:01:40PM +0100, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> 
> > My point was rather a `since the implementation is doing this anyway,
    [...]
> 
> Yep.  What about the following:
> 
>    - int scm_create_new_os_signal (void)
> 
>    Return an integer that can be used as the signal number with
>    scm_sigaction and scm_queue_os_signal.
> 
>    - void scm_queue_os_signal (int signum)
> 
>    Notify Guile that the OS signal signum has occured. [...]
>    the signal handler for it at the next safe point, as prepared by
>    scm_sigaction.
> 
>    SIGNUM can be a number from signals.h, like SIGINT, or it can be a
>    number returned by scm_create_new_os_signal.
> 
>    The function scm_queue_os_signal is save to be called at any time,
>    including from OS signal handlers.

Yes. I think this looks very nice. Some might argue for something more
abstract than an integer (a signal_t or whatnot) -- I wouldn't oppose,
but I'm very happy with what you propose.

Thanks
-- tomás

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