Realtime signals in glibc version 2.3.1

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi,

The following program used to print 32 and 63 on ia32 Linux with
glibc version 2.2.5 (unless linked with -lpthread when 35 and 63
were printed).  With version 2.3.1, -1 and -1 are printed.  This
makes it impossible for programs to use the realtime signals on
Linux without linking against the pthread library.  Is this
intentional?  What is the reasoning.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <signal.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        printf("SIGRTMIN = %d, SIGRTMAX = %d\n", SIGRTMIN, SIGRTMAX);
        return 0;
}

Also, if <unistd.h> happens to be included, the _POSIX_REALTIME_SIGNALS
is defined, but SIGRTMIN remains -1 (unless linked against -lpthread).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    address@hidden
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/