Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to Giuseppe Scrivano on 10/6/2008 3:33 PM: >> + sigaction (sig, NULL, &sa); >> + handler = sa.sa_handler; >> + sa.sa_handler = SIG_IGN; > > This is not necessarily safe, if SA_SIGINFO is set (sa.handler and > sa_siginfo are not required to occupy the same memory, but SIG_IGN is only > assignable to sa_handler). On the other hand, timeout is not using > SA_SIGINFO, so this really doesn't matter here. > > On the other hand, POSIX is explicit that mixing signal and sigaction is > not portable. For that matter, now that gnulib provides a guaranteed > sigaction, why don't we just change all of coreutils to use it? Affected > are: csplit, dd, install, ls, nohup, sort, tee, and timeout.
Good idea. I've wanted to get rid of "signal" uses for ages. Are you interested in doing it? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
