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From: clyde@ut-ngp.UUCP (Clyde W. Hoover)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: 4.2 signals broken?
Message-ID: <165@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 21:24:26 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.165
Posted: Tue Dec  6 21:24:26 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 05:25:33 EST
Organization: Comp. Center, Univ. of Texas at Austin
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I too find the sudden change of signals disturbing.  What is the MOST
disturbing is that I can't CONTROL their behavior! What if I WANT my
tty reads to return an error if interrupted?  Why can't I do that?

What we need here in an ioctl (fnctl) to set/clear the 'system call
restart' feature, just like the 'close on exec' feature.  I am also
upset at the dissapearance of sigset, sighold, sigrelse and all the other
special signal setting routines we were told to use in our VAX code
by the Berkeley boys.

I guess it'll teach me to stick to signal(sig, handler)!

 
		Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots
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Clyde W. Hoover @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center
Austin, Texas 
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