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From: nwh@hrc63.UUCP (Nigel Holder Marconi)
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Subject: System V and SIGCLD
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Date: Wed, 14-May-86 08:37:18 EDT
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In article 3994 (Simon Brown @ Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland)	

>Actually, the union doesn't just "happen" to begin with an int - it
>*has* to for compatibility with the Version-7 wait(), which was just
>like:  ...

The problem with relying on it being compatible with version 7 is
that one day someone may just remove the int part of the union since
it has no comment to state why it is there !
Its probably the 'cat -v considered dangerous' syndrome I'm trying to
put across.

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