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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Printing in signal handlers (more on ( alarm(1) == alarm(INFINITY))?
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 17:23:46 EST
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My recommendation is to do little more than set a flag in the signal
catcher and return.  Test this flag at appropriate places in the
main program control loop.  This is much safer than trying to do
anything useful from inside a signal catcher.