[3896] in bugtraq
signal handling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Jeremy)
Mon Jan 6 17:08:27 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 08:10:09 +1100
Reply-To: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>
From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@netspace.org>
On Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:43:10 +0100, Bjorn Wesen <bjorn@sparta.lu.se> wrote:
>Proper behaviour would be to have the sighandlers set volatile variables
>and checking these in appropriate places in the normal flow of control,
Actually, I seem to recall that this is the _only_ behaviour that is
allowed in signal handlers according to the ANSI C (or maybe POSIX)
standards - anything else is implementation defined.
Peter
