4.2BSD and Signals

[Peter Wolfe]

Well, is my face slightly red or what!!!  I discovered what the problem
was.

The man page for sig block says:

     Signal i is blocked if the i-th bit in mask is a 1.
    
well, what they really want you to do is:

    to block signal X set the (X-1) bit in the mask

    E.g.

	sigblock(1 << (SIGVTALRM - 1));

    will block SIGVTALRM.

Of course once I had posted the article and described the problem to a
colleague the solution seemed obvious (I also looked at the kernel code and
noticed the (sig-1) used).

So there you have it.  Read the manual and read between the manual if
system == UNIX.

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    Peter Wolfe
    New Media Technologies
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