RE: A signal fairy tale - a little comphist

2001-06-29 Thread Christopher Smith
At 03:57 PM 6/28/2001 +0200, Heusden, Folkert van wrote: >[...] > >A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently; > >sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes > >in large programs. >YOU> Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - > >Exactly. Wh

RE: A signal fairy tale - a little comphist

2001-06-28 Thread Heusden, Folkert van
[...] >A signal number cannot be opened more than once concurrently; >sigopen() thus provides a way to avoid signal usage clashes >in large programs. YOU> Signals are a pretty dopey API anyway - Exactly. When signals were made up, signalhandlers were supposed to not so mu