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From: bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.concurrent
Subject: Re: Long jumps out of signal handlers
Keywords: sigvec, longjmp, setjmp
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Date: 1 Nov 90 02:28:15 GMT
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If you're on a sun, and using setjmp/longjmp, as opposed to
_setjmp/_longjmp, which don't save the signal mask, you shouldn't
have any problems (at least I don't).  are you using sigstack to
define an alternate signal stack, and forgetting to set the
ss_onstack field of the sigstack struct?

bb

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