Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: volatile
Message-ID: <1988Apr13.164012.513@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12578@brl-adm.ARPA> <1988Mar25.172355.348@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 88 16:40:12 GMT

> Berkeley practice seems pretty firmly established to me.  What sort of
> OS-centricism is going on here?

Berklocentrism, and it's you that's doing it.  Recent releases of x.yBSD
are the *only* variants of Unix that interface to signal handlers in that
way.  Not only that, but it is actively incompatible with the standard
interface ("standard" meaning the /usr/group standard and the SVID -- real
standards -- in addition to widespread existing practice and drafts of X3J11
and POSIX) on any machine that has trouble with varargs functions; the
Berkloids have this wretchedly stupid habit of not giving new interfaces
new names.  All the world's a VAX, right?  Grr.
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