Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!maxim!prc
From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: System V function calls to signal()
Summary: Don't use them.
Message-ID: <1018@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 19 Nov 89 10:50:05 GMT
References: <13842@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <11618@smoke.BRL.MIL> <6542@merlin.usc.edu> <11625@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <11625@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 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.

The SVID don't recommend you to use them. They are subject of removal in
future releases of System V.

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