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From: gcardwel@orion.oac.uci.edu (Guy Cardwell)
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Subject: Re: Stacking signals
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Date: 16 Dec 89 01:07:29 GMT
References: <608@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl>
Reply-To: gcardwel@orion.oac.uci.edu (Guy Cardwell)
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In article <608@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl> hulsebos@ehvie0.tq.ine.philips.nl (rob hulsebos) writes:
>From this I conclude that signal-handling routines can not be stacked
>on a V.2 or V.3 system (it works as expected on BSD), probably because
>of a setjmp/longjmp construction in "sleep". Am I correct, or is there
>something wrong in V.2/V.3, or is this a bug in my system?

One of the major "innovations" in BSD over Sys V was the fact that
signals are stacked. Some implementations may support it. (AIX, for example)

Guy
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