[1028] in Athena Bugs
cryptic manual page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 22 15:58:57 1988
From: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 15:58:29 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
This is an excerpt from the sigpause(2) manual page. I don't
understand at all what it is trying to say. This is not gramatical
English at all.
In normal usage, a signal is blocked using sigblock(2), to
begin a critical section, variables modified on the
occurrence of the signal are examined to determine that
there is no work to be done, and the process pauses awaiting
work by using sigpause with the mask returned by sigblock.
