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signal handling

From: jeremyp () gsms01 alcatel com au (Peter Jeremy)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 08:10:09 +1100


On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:43:10 +0100, Bjorn Wesen <bjorn () sparta lu se> 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.

Peter

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