Xref: utzoo comp.lang.misc:5462 comp.unix.internals:142 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!unsvax!jimi!otto!texsun!Athena!Xsys!tim From: tim@Xsys..uucp (Tim Dawson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Unix error handling Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 15:22:47 GMT References: <1990Aug31.190751.12522@dg-rtp.dg.com> <556:Aug3122:09:3290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1990Sep2.050854.12008@nixtdc.uucp> <1990Sep4.004307.12274@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: usenet@Athena.UUCP Distribution: usa Lines: 18 david@Neon.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes: >You must have been reading about AIXv3 setjmp() and longjmp() recently. >You can use these calls to do exactly that. >AIXv3 is turning out to be a really nice OS. I hate to pop this bubble, but setjmp() and longjmp() are NOT from AIX - they are a part of the SysVR3 release from AT&T and are utilized within Unix, among other places. Source of my information: AT&T System 5 Release 3 internals training. I have not checked too many OS ports, but this (based on the above) exists in AIX, and also exists in Motorola SysV68 and SysV88, and I suspect in most all ports of System V Release 3! Let's not give IBM credit for something that they definitely did NOT come up with! -- ================================================================================ Tim Dawson (...!texsun!Athena!tim) Motorola Computer Systems, Dallas, TX. "God gave me a brain and I give Him the glory by using it!"