Steven M. Schweda wrote: > From: Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Next problem on Tru64: >>> [...] >>> ld: >>> Unresolved: >>> siggetmask >> We ain't go no siggetmask(). None on VMS (out as far as V8.3), >> either, should I ever get so far. >> >> siggetmask is an obsolete BSDism; POSIX has the sigprocmask function, >> which we should prefer. We should also do feature-testing, and not >> assume there's a portable way to block/unblock signals. > > Note that sigprocmask() does appear on VMS, but apparently not until > V8.2, which is ahead of many users (including me, in part). More > portability would be better in this region. Can't sigsetmask() or > sigblock() do the same job if you tell them not to change anything?
Oh... I guess siggetmask() _isn't_ the BSDism, then; it's just lumped into the same manpage. It comes from elsewhere. My thought was that we'd use sigprocmask() where available, and fall back to the older BSD extension (which I had thought would remain siggetmask()), and then to nothing if neither are available. I guess we should substitute sigblock(0) for siggetmask(). I wasn't really expecting VMS to have sigprocmask(); but I expect future systems may conceivably have it and lack the BSD ones (and perhaps such systems are already in the wild). Anyway, we'll use what's available. -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/
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