SunOS: 1; portability: 0
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.auspex.com
Tue Sep 26 10:32:00 AEST 1989
>Note 1. Actually, I'm not fully convinced that signal handlers should
>return void rather than int. Letting them return int allows a future
>extension to signal handlers so that they *can* return a value.
And allows all programs written not to have the handler for the signals
in question to fall apart in a million pieces once the signal mechanism
is modified to expect a return value. Yes, signal handlers should
return void rather than int.
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