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From: kaja@daimi.aau.dk (Kaja P. Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: What is sigcleanup?
Message-ID: <1991Jan22.153802.9869@daimi.aau.dk>
Date: 22 Jan 91 15:38:02 GMT
Sender: kaja@daimi.aau.dk (Kaja P. Christiansen)
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
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In the process of debugging a perl program, I used "trace"
and noticed that "trace" repeatedly showed calls to 
"sigcleanup" (which occasionally looped).

Searching for "sigcleanup" in perl and C libraries 
(and manual pages as well) did not give any explanation 
of "sigcleanup", except that:

1) entry #139 in /usr/include/sys/syscall.h is unused.
2) "strings /usr/bin/trace" shows sigcleanup as placed 
   between "utimes" and "adjtime" (#138 and #140 respectively).

What is "sigcleanup" doing?

We use sun3, SunOS 4.0.3, perl 3.44.


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