Path: utzoo!yunexus!davecb
From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Sys V improvements (was I CAN'T BELIEVE...)
Message-ID: <2471@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 89 15:17:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: yunexus.2471
References: <10443@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
| It hasn't been necessary to perform periodic sync()s to maintain the
| integrity of disk structures for many years now (in the System V branch
| of the UNIX family tree, at least, and I've heard similar claims for
| some 4BSD variants).  


  To change the subject slightly, have the late releases of Sys V
added to (or changed) the signal semantics to allow one to reliably
catch repeated signals.
  I remember from days of yore that various implementations allowed
signal(1) to survive back-to-back dels, but I don't recollect discussion
of improvements in the standard.

--dave (I'm showing may age again) c-b
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