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Use sigaction() instead of signal(), the latter has a unavoidable race-condition on "broken by backwards-compatibility" systems like Solaris. (upon receiving a signal, the handler is reset to SIG_DFL, thus a second signal will kill the process, the problem could also be reduced by re-installing the handler inside the handler, but there's still a race-condition and the risk of the handler being called inside the handler).

VIDIX - Video Interface for *niX.
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This library was designed and introduced as interface to userspace drivers
to provide DGA everywhere where it's possible (unline X11).
I hope that these drivers will be portable same as X11 (not only on *nix).

For details on how to develop a new driver see trunk/DOCS/tech/vidix.txt

IMPORTANT: These are NOT linux kernel drivers. If you are looking for
the mga_vid linux kernel drivers, please cd ../drivers thanks.