[Spice-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Add check for macOS, disable ucontext on macOS (deprecated)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 07:48:01AM -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Add check for macOS, disable ucontext on macOS
> >  (deprecated)
> > 
> 
> It's also deprecated on Linux afaik, but it's still the preferred way in qemu too.
>
> An alternative would be to implement sigaltstack I suppose (available in qemu).

Until any OS actually remove ucontext, IMHO it is better to stick
with the ucontext impl as it is tried & tested and known to have
good performance. I certainly wouldn't recommend use of the
gthread impl as its performance is going to be worse & has very
little testing. 

Regards,
Daniel
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