*: soap_core.cpp uses subsys + "_PARAM" style
 *: turn calls to sigprocmask into condor_sigmask and update condor_macros.h
 *: startd is sleep()y (#837)
+*: -1 is a common tid representing "no timer", it is checked with != -1 and >= 0. tid should be a type.
+*: some code does "if (daemonCore)", suggests the code might be executing after the global daemonCore object is deleted, or before it is constructed, which should not happen