strange behaviour of SIG_IGN

[Bernhard Weinelt]

Hello folks, I have a new interesting (at least for me) question:

Suppose the following little program:

#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<signal.h>

main()
{
  int c;
  system("stty -echo cbreak");
  /*signal(SIGSEGV,SIG_IGN);*/
  while ((c=getchar())!=4) printf("%c",c);
  system("stty echo -cbreak");
}

With the signal in comments, the program works as expected:
it echo's all characters and exits on ^D.

But with the signal statement in the program, after pressing
^D there is no more reaction at the terminal and in fact
the program has spawn a new sh-process, which is indefinitly
running. A very costly behaviour on our ULTRIX and BSD4.3
VAX's.

[With SunOS the above program works fine with the signal 
statement.]

Exchanging SIG_IGN by an empty function also fixes the
problem. But can anybody explain this strange behaviour?
Thanks in advance.

Bernhard
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