Unix error handling

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <GRP.90Sep12130853 at magpie.unify.uucp>, grp at unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) says:

> In article <13061 at letni.UUCP> doug at letni.UUCP (Doug Davis) writes:
>>   some os's may have special handling for external things, like signals for
>>   instance, when returning to a state via a longjmp().
> Actually, I think the original question/response was regarding not the generic
> setjmp and longjmp, but a setjmp/longjmp that does exception handling, in a 
> manner similar to AIXv3.

Then add HP-UX 7.0 to the list, which has variations on setjmp(3C) that
allow saving or not saving the signal mask. Used in conjunction with
sigaction/sigprocmask(2) (Posix), or sigvector/sigsetmask/sigblock(2)
(HP).

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