Signals on Sys V

[Larry Philps]

In article <1745 at calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> goof at calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Paul LOSORDO) writes:
> ...
>I am trying to develop a light-weight processes package for SCO Sys V,
>V 3.2 and I am having troubles getting signals to behave themselves.
> ...
>second one. Since the Dispatcher sets the handler to SIGDFL, this has
>the infortunate effect of killing my process.

In System V Release 3 there are two signal interfaces.  The one you get with
the "signal" system call is the old (but still there for compatability)
broken one in which most signals are reset to SIGDFL when taken.

The other interface appeared in R3 and is accessed via the "sigset" system
call (same arguments as "signal").  Signal handlers invoked after a sigset
behave just like Berkeley signals, that is ensuing signals of the same type
are blocked while the signal handler is running.  Just put a

#define signal sigset

at the start of your program and see if that fixes the problems.  Your
program will certainly be more reliable.

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