[m-dev.] for review: cleanup signal setting.

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Fri May 15 10:37:41 AEST 1998


On 14-May-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> -static void
> -checked_signal(int sig, void (*handler)(int))
> -{
> -	/*
> -	** We really need sigaction and SA_RESTART, otherwise profiling signals
> -	** might interrupt I/O, causing a profiled program to get I/O errors.
> -	** But if we haven't got it, I guess we just have to punt...
> -	*/
> -#ifndef SA_RESTART
> -#define SA_RESTART 0
> -#endif

I don't think your log message provided any rationale for removing that
bit of code.  Did that just get unintentionally lost in the reorganization?

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