Re: Signal handling

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:53:36AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     I don't remember objecting to sigaction.  Do you recall a
     specific context?  Perhaps that would prompt me.


In March last, you made this change to main.c shortly after I had
added the bug_handler function:  

john$ cvs diff -r1.6 -r1.7 main.c 
Index: main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pspp/pspp/src/main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -r1.6 -r1.7
63,66c63
<   struct sigaction bug ;
<   bug.sa_handler = bug_handler;
< 
<   sigaction(SIGSEGV, &bug,0);
---
>   signal (SIGSEGV, bug_handler);


I think you sent me a message explaining why you prefered signal over
sigaction, but I can't find that msg right now.

J'




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