Re: POSIX signal handling versus traditional signal handling

From: Maxim Yegorushkin (maxim.yegorushkin_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/24/05 

Date: 24 Aug 2005 01:36:32 -0700

usenet@sta.samsung.com wrote:

> For example, in all the code snippets of POSIX Real-time signal
> handling that I have seen, I don't see any checks to see if the
> signal has been previously set to SIG_IGN, and keeping it that way in
> case it has.

???

> Also, I don't see the signal handler resetting the
> signal, to prevent it from being reset to its default value. Is it
> just the code snippets that I am seeing, or are they indeed different?

Under POSIX you can specify if a handler should be reset or left
unchanged using flags using sigaction().
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/sigaction.html

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