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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:05:29 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: grog@lemis.de, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: signal 4?
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>> what exactly is signal 4?

>>From <sys/signal.h>:

>...
>#define	SIGILL	4	/* illegal instruction (not reset when caught) */

This comment doesn't seem to have been changed since prehistoric times.
All signals are "not reset when caught" in FreeBSD, unless the recently
introduced SA_RESETHAND is used to break them.  The comment is now wrong
as well as misleading, since SA_RESETHAND may be used to break SIGILL :-).

Bruce