SunOS: 1; portability: 0

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Tue Sep 26 10:32:00 AEST 1989


>Note 1.  Actually, I'm not fully convinced that signal handlers should
>return void rather than int.  Letting them return int allows a future
>extension to signal handlers so that they *can* return a value.

And allows all programs written not to have the handler for the signals
in question to fall apart in a million pieces once the signal mechanism
is modified to expect a return value.  Yes, signal handlers should
return void rather than int.



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