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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:54 +1000 (EST)
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> I also changed an exit() in a signal handler introduced by FreeBSD to
> _exit(), which I think is correct.

Perhaps the exit shouldn't be in a signal handler.  Then exit() could
be used.

> There's an errx() in there as
> well; is that okay?

No.  errx() uses stdio (to write on stderr by default) and then calls exit().

Bruce


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