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Re: Realtime signals in glibc version 2.3.1


From: Andreas Jaeger
Subject: Re: Realtime signals in glibc version 2.3.1
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:41:17 +0100
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Stephen Rothwell <address@hidden> writes:

> 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

You need to link against libpthread if you like to use librt,

Andreas

> 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).

Andreas
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