Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Commentary/Rts/Signals

Timestamp:

03/03/10 16:47:50 (3 years ago)

Author:

dons

Comment:

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Commentary/Rts/Signals

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    * [[GhcFile(rts/win32/Ticker.c)]]
 
-On Posix, the timer signal is implemented by calling `setitimer()` to generate regular `SIGALRM` signals.  This isn't ideal, since we'd like to allow the application t so use `SIGALRM` if it needs to.  Ideally we should use something better (see #850).
+On Posix, the timer signal is implemented by calling `setitimer()` to generate regular `SIGALRM` signals (the single threaded RTS uses SIGVTALRM).  This isn't ideal, since we'd like to allow the application t so use `SIGALRM` if it needs to.  Ideally we should use something better (see #850).
 
 On Windows, we spawn a new thread that repeatedly sleeps for the timer interval and then executes the timer interrupt handler.