In article <1187 at csd4.milw.wisc.edu> jd at csd4.milw.wisc.edu (James R Drinkwater) writes: >Can you think of examples in which you would like to keep a signal handler >installed across exec? This makes no sense. A signal handler is part of your address space. That goes away on an exec. Larry McVoy, Lachman Associates. ...!sun!lm or lm at sun.com