From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: developer_linux@yahoo.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about Linux signal handling
Date: 23 Feb 2003 23:43:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046043810.2092.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046039341.32116.34.camel@cube>
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 22:29, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> Yes. This is the behavior of all SysV UNIX systems
> and Linux kernels. Unfortunately, BSD got it wrong.
Firstly BSD didn't get it wrong, things merely diverged
historically after V7 unix.
> Worse, the glibc developers saw fit to ignore both
> UNIX history and Linus. They implemented BSD behavior
> by making signal() use the sigaction system call
Also wrong. If you read the gcc documentation you can
select favouring BSD or SYS5 behaviour at compile time
glibc has the best of both worlds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-23 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-23 22:29 Albert Cahalan
2003-02-23 23:43 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-02-23 23:04 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-02-24 0:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-24 0:01 ` Magnus Danielson
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2003-02-23 4:45 Tom Sanders
2003-02-23 16:30 ` Jesse Pollard
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