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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Subject: Re: missing routine from A/UX library?
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.045154.6450@panix.uucp>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 91 04:51:54 GMT
References: <453@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU> <1991Jun19.231832.18164@servalan.uucp>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
Keywords: rewinddir

>Ah.  This sounds like the dreaded 4.2-signal problem (programs that expect 
>4.[23]BSD signal semantics failing catastrophically on A/UX, where the default
>is SysV signal semantics).  Stick a call to "set42sig()" at the beginning 
>of the main function.  

I may not be remembering things right here, but didn't someone mention a while
ago that linking with -lbsd would do the same thing? (I use the set42sig()
myself in a patch for rn, but the link command is non-invasive, so to speak.
When I patched rn, I didn't know about -lbsd.)

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Alexis Rosen
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