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

Wed, 11 Sep 1996 10:05:44 -0700



>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 have personally found this feature annoying.  I DO want a core dump
in the case of a SIGSEGV so I can see where it occured with a debugger.
Should the default be not to have it and if you want it have a run time flag
or a configure flag that enables by default?

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