On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:33:21 -0400 James Carlson wrote: > William Pursell writes: > > On 9/26/07, Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote: > > > AFAIK it was http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=206 and it went > > > away on our test machines after applying the hotfix for > > > http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=311 ... the question is now > > > where this xx@@@!!! is hiding now... ;-( > > > > Maybe that's CR 6598201. A previous fix in libc (6586967) broke the > > signal(3C) interface
> Unless you're a canary-in-the-coal-mine sort of application, like this > odd corner case in dhcpagent, I'd hope that you're not using the old > BSD-style signal(3C) interfaces in any modern software. sigaction(2) > works _far_ better. the sea of cr numbers and hotfixes has me at a loss is ksh implicated on a standard bleeding edge system or not? re signal() in ksh/ast: the ast code uses signal() but it is intercepted at the library layer which uses sigaction/sigvec or whatever is available to coax usable signal semantics from the system implementation -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
