why is Size of sigset_t 128 bytes ?

[Siddu <siddu.sjce@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I came across an article (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6483) about signals . Its a very nice article

It says and also i verified that the size of sigset_t showing 128 bytes ?

while code from /* /usr/include/bits/sigset.h */

"Maybe this is not the right place to ask this .... Sorry, Hoping someone would be knowing the answer "

# define _SIGSET_NWORDS (1024 / (8 * sizeof (unsigned long int)))
typedef struct
  {
    unsigned long int __val[_SIGSET_NWORDS];
  } __sigset_t;

typedef __sigset_t sigset_t;

which is definitely not 128 bytes .

Thanks for your inputs !

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