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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Passing SIGWINCH on from a signal handler
Keywords: Sun, SunOS, signal, SIGWINCH
Message-ID: <7084@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 15 Feb 90 23:18:22 GMT
References: <1525@dinl.mmc.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1525@dinl.mmc.UUCP> noren@dinl.UUCP (Chuck Noren) writes:
: We wrote a signal handler to catch the SIGWINCH signal on
: a Sun 3 with SunOS 4.0.3.
: When we installed it, we found that signal() returns
: a NULL the first time it is invoked.  
: We were hoping to get the default signal handler for
: SIGWINCH so we could use it to have the SunOS do its
: normal window processing.
: We were wondering if there is a way to pass the
: signal on to the SunOS default signal handler after we
: process the signal ourselves.

Sorry, your only option is to admit that you can't handle things
and kill yourself.

Badump-bump.            :-)

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov