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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:06:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses lib_newterm.c
Message-ID:  <199608160606.IAA04877@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <25792.840146585@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 15, 96 03:03:05 pm"

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Why is this?  sigaction() is Posix, signal() ain't.
> 
> sigaction had unwonted side-effects.

I don't trust you. ;-)  signal()'s implementation is mainly based on
sigaction().  So if the latter has unwanted side-effects for you that
signal doesn't have, it's probably a programmer's error.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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