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From: wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
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Subject: Re: TURBO C: signal(SIGINT, ); multiple calls hangs itself
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Date: 2 Jan 91 22:33:40 GMT
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In article <15795.2780a5d4@levels.sait.edu.au> marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>If signal is called again in the handler function up to about 25 attempts
>to Break the program are successfully thwarted, but then       , that's right,
>nothing happens - a cold boot is required.

I *could* be due to the call to printf in the signal handler. Remember,
there's little you can *realiably* do in a signal handler, just about
the only thing is setting a flag.

Lars Wirzenius    wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi    wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi