[openib-general] RE: opensm and signals

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 04:00, Eitan Zahavi wrote:
> > Hi, Hal, Eitan!
> > Whats the reason opensm needs to catch and try to handle signals
> such as SIGINT?

> [EZ] The reason was way back some drivers had resource tracking
> problems. So if OpenSM left without cleaning up all used resources
> (like MAD buffers and UD-AVs) 
> 
> the driver oops'ed.
> > It seems that we can let the default handler simply kill the
> application.
> > If this is required for some vendor layer, shouldnt the signal
> > handling be part of that vendor layer?
> I will be glad to remove that code...

Do we still need to any supported vendor layer ?

-- Hal