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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 03:23:36 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Giving a sighandler more information
Message-ID:  <200001110223.DAA70411@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
In-Reply-To: <85e18k$1dhm$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>

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Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > I'm writing an ftp daemon, and it needs to speak the telnet protocol. 
 > That means I need to handle SIGURG for synchs and such.  I'm wondering
 > what the best way is to get further information to the handle.  Is there
 > a way other than global variables (which would make my code look messier
 > than it already is)?

I'm afraid there is no other way than using global variables.
Be sure to declare them as ``volatile sig_atomic_t''.

 > recommendation for a network programming book?  I've heard good things
 > about the Stevens book (
 > http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=013490012X
 > ...

Yes, Stevens book is a good recommendation.

Regards
   Oliver

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