Negative signal numbers

Julian Stecklina js at ...14...
Mon May 14 13:20:46 CEST 2012


Am Dienstag, den 08.05.2012, 16:57 +0200 schrieb Martin Stein:
> While i was implementing the signal framework i've noticed
> that the num field in signals is of type int. Is there any reason
> for the possibility to not only submit negative numbers of signals,
> but also receive negative numbers of signals?

man 2 kill
man 2 signal

I guess it's for historical reasons. :)

Julian
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