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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Signals on Sys V
Message-ID: <2650@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Nov 89 21:29:16 GMT
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 >	It does seem strange that the 2.8/2.9BSD libjobs functionality
 >	from 1983/4 was implemented rather than the 4.2/3BSD signal
 >	semantics.  So System V has finally caught up with 2.9BSD,
 >	congrats ;-)

System V Release 4 offers the POSIX signal mechanism, so it's finally
caught up with (and passed) 4.3BSD (4.4BSD will presumably catch up
there).