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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: top signal handling 
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:11:33 MST, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> +sig_atomic_t leaveflag;

This type, sig_atomic_t, isn't mentioned at all in the entire manual
domain in FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE.

Any pointers?  I understand the principle, but I'm wondering how you
found out about this thing.  Is this from some external "safe signal
handling" documentation reference.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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