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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
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Subject: Re: Signals after exec
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Date: 23 Feb 89 02:53:41 GMT
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In article <1187@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> jd@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (James R Drinkwater) writes:
>Can you think of examples in which you would like to keep a signal handler
>installed across exec?

This makes no sense.  A signal handler is part of your address space.  That
goes away on an exec.  

Larry McVoy, Lachman Associates.			...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com