Re: Legacy Signal Code

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:In my quest to remove COMPAT_43 code from src/sys/kern/ I have stumbled
:upon the osigaction() and osigprocmask() syscalls.  These were obsoleted
:just before 4-STABLE was branched when sigset_t was extended to support
:128 individual signals.  I figure that I could to one of three things with
:them:
:
:   o Remove them and add a commet that documents their previous existance.
:
:   o Rename them to freebsd3_sigaction() and freebsd3_sigprocmask() and
:     reimplement using split syscalls.
:
:   o Move them to the 43bsd compat tree and reimplement using split
:     syscalls.
:
:I don't want to move them to the 43bsd compat tree if they don't belong
:there.  Were these interfaces introduced in 4.4BSD?  McKusick's Design
:and Implementation isn't too clear if they were in 4.3BSD.  If so, the
:question becomes whether we should keep FreeBSD 3.x compat bits in the
:signal code.
:
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:   David P. Reese, Jr.                                     daver@xxxxxxxxxxxx
:                                               http://www.gomerbud.com/daver/

    I *think* we can simply scrap them.  The only compatibility we really
    care about is FreeBSD-4.x compatibility.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>