On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 at 12:43, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Feb 28 15:36, Lionel Cons via Cygwin wrote: > > We've hit a scalability issue in Cygwin today, the application in > > question ran out of POSIX realtime signals (i.e. SIGRTMIN-SIGRTMAX). > > > > Could Cygwin support 128 POSIX realtime signals? > > Not possible. sigset_t is an unsigned long, thus we can only support > up to 64 signals. > > A change to a bigger sigset_t is an ABI breakage and requires two > different entry points for all functions touching the sigset_t type, one > for the new definition of sigset_t, one for backward compatibility with > existing applications. This *could* be part of 3.7, but I don't make > any promises.
gcc has int128_t - would that help you? Lionel -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
