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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Signal() and literate programming
Message-ID: <15705@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 19 Jan 90 23:26:09 GMT
References: <1990Jan19.193917.23671@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <1990Jan19.193917.23671@agate.berkeley.edu> bks@alfa.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) writes:
>Has anyone come up with what he/she thinks is a good way to code signal
>handling.  Signal names and numbers are not standardized.

Sure they are.  X3J11 standardized 6 of them, and 1003.1 another 13.

>Not all types of signals exist on all systems.

My recommendation is to use POSIX as a base, and on non-Standard systems,
attempt to emulate the POSIX behavior (by returning an error code for
inappropriate signal values, for example).

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@haddock.isc.com or ima!haddock!karl), The Walking Lint