SYSV vs BSD signal blues :-(_(re)

Thu, 12 Sep 96 13:22:49 CST

On 11 Sep 96 16:01:47 EDT, 
Berend de Boer  <100120.3121@CompuServe.COM> wrote:

>> I think I'll just rewrite the signal related stuff in rts-rt0.c, implement 
>> some BSD/SYSV independant routines that ONLY mask signals that are actually 
>> present on the target system.
>
>I don't have handson experience with signals, but it seems to me that POSIX
>already did this. I suggest using signals according to the POSIX standard.
>
>And every unix box should come with some decent posix library these days.
>

POSIX describes a "minimum set" of signals that must be present in a 
system. It's the non-POSIX, system specific signals that caused the 
confusion here.

Of course I could just remove all non-POSIX stuff from GPC, but I don't 
think that's necessary.

It also shouldn't be hard to implement a runtime switch to turn signal 
catching off altogether to enable coredumps, like somebody else suggested.


JanJaap

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