missing routine from A/UX library?

Alexis Rosen alexis at panix.uucp
Sun Jun 23 14:51:54 AEST 1991


>Ah.  This sounds like the dreaded 4.2-signal problem (programs that expect 
>4.[23]BSD signal semantics failing catastrophically on A/UX, where the default
>is SysV signal semantics).  Stick a call to "set42sig()" at the beginning 
>of the main function.  

I may not be remembering things right here, but didn't someone mention a while
ago that linking with -lbsd would do the same thing? (I use the set42sig()
myself in a patch for rn, but the link command is non-invasive, so to speak.
When I patched rn, I didn't know about -lbsd.)

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