Re: Singnals code (not just win32 specific)

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The backend signals code today uses pqsignal() instead of signal() at
> all places. But it uses kill() and sigsetmask() (through the macro
> PG_SETMASK) directly.
>
> I propose to change this to pqkill() and pqsigsetmask(). In pqsignal.h,
> these would be #define:d back to kill() and setsigmask() for the normal
> method, but would be functions on win32.

Sounds logical and more consistent than it is now.

While talking about it, I think our usage of signals is way overloaded
anyway. Any ideas how to replace it all with just one signal and a
regular message queue?


Jan

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