Signals on Sys V

Steven M. Schultz sms at WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM
Thu Nov 16 01:05:33 AEST 1989


In article <DOUGM.89Nov14135134 at queso.ico.isc.com> dougm at queso.ico.isc.com (Doug McCallum) writes:
>
>Its also too bad that the "sighold()" and "sigrelse()" calls only take
>a signal number and not a mask as with the BSD equivalents.

	It does seem strange that the 2.8/2.9BSD libjobs functionality
	from 1983/4 was implemented rather than the 4.2/3BSD signal
	semantics.  So System V has finally caught up with 2.9BSD,
	congrats ;-)

	Steven M. Schultz
	sms at wlv.imsd.contel.com



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