Question on signal blocking

Paul John Falstad pfalstad at phoenix.Princeton.EDU
Mon Jan 14 23:55:27 AEST 1991


In article <25489 at adm.brl.mil> MANNS%DBNPIB5.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jochen Manns, PI der Uni Bonn, 732738/3611) writes:
>        a) if a signal handler (SIGCHLD) is invoked and the same signal
>           comes again, is the handler called again after it returned?
>        b) if another signal handler has SIGCHLD blocked and SIGCHLD
>           arrived, will I catch the signal?

Yes to both, at least in BSD.  Why?



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