Subj : Re: How to manage time-slicing in Pthreads programs? To : comp.programming.threads From : Joe Seigh Date : Sun Feb 20 2005 09:48 am On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:33:59 +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > "Joe Seigh" writes: > >>> How? Are these ways involving signals? I kind of remember signals in >>> Linux threads are somewhat goofy. Am I wrong? >> >> Unix signals are brain damaged beyond redemption. > > I wonder how would you have designed them differently. > I wouldn't have had them in the first place. Unix signals were an attempt to introduce asynchonicity before they knew what they were doing. They should have a plan in place to deprecate and remove signals from unix. The fact that they continue to add them to new api's like asynchronous i/o is nothing short of incompetence. -- Joe Seigh .