Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: System V function calls to signal()
Message-ID: <11625@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:50:04 GMT
References: <13842@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <11618@smoke.BRL.MIL> <6542@merlin.usc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6542@merlin.usc.edu> jeenglis@nunki.usc.edu (Joe English) writes:
>What are ssignal() and gsignal() for, anyway?

I think they showed up in UNIX System III, certainly UNIX System V.
They're just a software analog of the signal() facility.

>Are they part of the ANSI standard library?

Heavens, no.