signal functions
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sun Apr 17 08:34:31 AEST 1988
> ... The true signal interface in 4.2/4.3BSD is the `sigvec'
> system call; the `signal' interface is emulated in the C library.
> That emulation could (but does not now, on the Vax and Tahoe, where
> it happens to be unnecessary) arrange to call `signal' handlers
> with only one argument, while `sigvec' handlers would get all three.
Unfortunately, the current documentation (as published by Usenix)
specifies the three-argument form for both sigvec and signal, and at
first glance I see not even a mention of the one-argument form.
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