Re: Thread implementations...

Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 14:07:52 +0100 (BST)

Alan Cox writes:
> > One _byte_? Would not one long be much, much better? How are you going
> > to fit filehandle into one byte?
>
> I think its one byte, and I agree one long might be better, one byte is
> a good enough hash into a pending I/O RQ table

It's not a byte: it's an int or pointer. struct siginfo_t contains a
union sigval si_value and union sigval requires at least the members:
int sival_int;
void *sival_ptr;

--Malcolm

-- 
Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services


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