Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Question about Linux signal handling | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 23 Feb 2003 23:43:31 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 22:29, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Yes. This is the behavior of all SysV UNIX systems > and Linux kernels. Unfortunately, BSD got it wrong.
Firstly BSD didn't get it wrong, things merely diverged historically after V7 unix.
> Worse, the glibc developers saw fit to ignore both > UNIX history and Linus. They implemented BSD behavior > by making signal() use the sigaction system call
Also wrong. If you read the gcc documentation you can select favouring BSD or SYS5 behaviour at compile time
glibc has the best of both worlds
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