Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!charyb!dan From: dan@charyb.COM (Dan Mick) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: System V function calls to signal() Summary: ssignal/gsignal..what are they? Keywords: ssignal gsignal Message-ID: <313@charyb.COM> Date: 17 Nov 89 18:47:03 GMT References: <13842@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <11618@smoke.BRL.MIL> <6542@merlin.usc.edu> Reply-To: dan@charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) Organization: KFW Corporation, Newbury Park, CA Lines: 5 The Turbo C manual claims they're old (System III?) versions of software signal handling and delivering. TC 2.0 dropped them in favor of signal(), and included code for rolling your own if you really really needed them. -- .sig files are idiotic and wasteful.