Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:11:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In a package I'm trying to "autoconf-purify" there is some legacy code
that tries to cope for systems whose signal handlers do not take exactly
one argument of type int. Does anyone know of a system where this is
merited?
There are a number of systems which pass additional arguments to
signal handlers, mainly for additional information. However, I don't
know of any system in which a signal handler written to take a single
int argument does not work.
On some systems an additional sigaction flag can be used to request
additional information, in which case the signal handler should be
written differently. Is it possible that the legacy code you are
examining is trying to do that on systems for which it is possible?
Ian
