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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: What is the error "alarm clock"?
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Date: 21 Apr 91 01:58:11 GMT
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>(I seem to recall that V7 did it this way,

It did.

>In SVR4, you can use sigset() instead of signal(), but I prefer not to
>(can you say -ljobs?).

In SVR*3* you can use "sigset()".  In SVR4 you can do so also, but you
can also use "sigaction()" and be done with it ("sigaction()" being the
POSIX flavor of 4.2BSD-style signals).