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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Minor problems with ELM and A/UX
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Date: 15 Apr 91 12:50:22 GMT
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In article <51509@apple.Apple.COM> mgchow@Apple.COM (Mike Chow) writes:
}In article <23930@memqa.uucp> qfhca81@memqa.uucp (Henry Melton) writes:
}>> 
}>> Just as a wild guess, perhaps ELM is getting confused about signal handling
}>> because of the SysV semantics being enabled by default.  Try sticking a 
}>> call to set42sig() somewhere in the main() function and see if that helps.
}>> I've found that's helped other programs that die strangely of "Alarm Clock",
}>> and other programs as well -- as I recall, Epoch didn't work worth a damn
}>> until I put the set42sig() in...
}>> --
}>> Richard Todd	rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu  rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us
}>> 	rmtodd@servalan.uucp
}>> "Elvis has left Bettendorf!"
}>
}>Great info!  set42sig let me compile oneko.  Keep these tips coming.
}>
}>
}
}I THINK the "-ZB" flag to the A/UX C compiler will implicitly set up BSD
}signal semantics and BSD defines, so one might want to try this flag when
}compiling BSD sources for A/UX.
}


Now I don't know about 2.0.1, but for 2.0 and previous, even with -lbsd and
-ZB you STILL had to add the set42sig() call... it didn't "do it" for you :(

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