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Date:      Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:26:53 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        ache@nagual.pp.ru
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, sos@sos.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: siginterrupt (was Re: Error in sleep !)
Message-ID:  <199708122326.QAA09419@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813025103.1477A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net> from "=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=" at Aug 13, 97 03:07:28 am

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> > POSIX says that system calls will not be restarted by default (the
> > historical System V behaviour for signals).
> 
> Could you please send exact quote just about this particular thing?
> Many times POSIX is very unclear or can be misinterpreted.

Sorry, I don't have the standard handy.

General Rule of thumb: POSIX favors System V behaviour.


> > If FreeBSD has been updated to exhibit POSIX behaviour (the original
> > poster was claiming it had been), then the signal and siginterrupt
> > man pages, which claim historical BSD behaviour, are wrong.  They
> > should claim POSIX behaviour instead.
> 
> Currently siginterrupt and signal man pages says nothing about POSIX
> conformance, so manpages are right independently of how we interpretate
> POSIX.

They say what the FreeBSD defaults are, and they are (probably) wrong.


> POSIX says exactly that _any_ non-blocked and non-ignored signal should
> terminate sleep(3)/sleep(1) including default no-op signals like ^T, etc. 

I think there is a difference between "masked" and "sa_handler == SIG_DFL"
here.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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