-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Micah Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Okay... but I don't see the logic of: >> >> 1. If the system has POSIX's sigsetjmp, use that. >> 2. Otherwise, just assume it has the completely unportable, and not >> even BSDish, siggetmask. > > Are you sure siggetmask isn't BSD-ish? When I tested that code on > various Unix systems, the only one without sigsetjmp was Ultrix, and > it had siggetmask. Linux man page claims siggetmask to belong to the > "BSD signal API" and the headers expose it when _BSD_SOURCE is > defined.
My Linux man page claims that all the functions in there, _except_ siggetmask, are from BSD, and that siggetmask is of unclear origin. >> At least sigblock(0) is more portable, > > What makes you say that? Because that one _is_ a BSD-ism. >> And saying that VMS should implement its own completely separate >> run_with_timeout just > > I know nothing of VMS. If it's sufficiently different from Unix that > it has wildly different alarm/signal facilities, or no alarm/signal at > all (as is the case with Windows), then it certainly makes sense for > Wget to provide a VMS-specific run_with_timeout and use it on VMS. > Exactly as it's now done with Windows. Not when we can use a more portabile facility to make both systems happy. "Doesn't have siggetmask() nor sigsetjmp()" != "wildly different alarm/signal facilities". >> because it lacks an unportable facility doesn't make sense--esides >> which, we're talking about a Unix here (Tru64), not VMS (yet). > > Do you say that Tru64 lacks both sigsetjmp and siggetmask? Are you > sure about that? That is the only system we are currently talking about. Steven's been testing on that as a stepping-stone to VMS, as it's the most similar Unix to VMS. He has also run some tests on Solaris, more recently. Sorry if there was some confusion; one of the earlier threads was entitled "VMS and Wget", because the message that spawned it was me prodding him to get his VMS kit up-to-date for inclusion. :) - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHIjLb7M8hyUobTrERCDmmAJ9NccwcxdkJ73xrq465SH+GT4LfrwCeJ/sd Z9hotYNSvKVzdQVFLTM73gY= =qh10 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
