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Re: signal handling


From: abelits () phobos illtel denver co us (Alex Belits)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:50:22 -0800


On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Peter Jeremy wrote:

Proper behaviour would be to have the sighandlers set volatile variables
and checking these in appropriate places in the normal flow of control,
Actually, I seem to recall that this is the _only_ behaviour that is
allowed in signal handlers according to the ANSI C (or maybe POSIX)
standards - anything else is implementation defined.

On all systems there is a set of system calls allowed from the signal
handler. I'm not sure, which standard it is, but, say write() is allowed.

--
Alex



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