Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!ircam!mf From: mf@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: sigsetmask does not return Message-ID: <1990Oct29.142615.5442@ircam.ircam.fr> Date: 29 Oct 90 14:26:15 GMT Sender: mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France) Lines: 13 Setup: DECsystem 5810 Ultrix 4.0 rev 179 Vanilla X11.R4 Building epoch-3.2 (public domain extension of emacs to the X window system). When temacs is 1st invoked, it hangs. Dbx shows call to sigsetmask(-1) entering but not returning. When replaced by POSIX calls, i.e., sigprocmask(SIG_SIGSETMASK, mask, oldmask) it hangs as well. Any clues/help? Thanks in advance, Michael Fingerhut