[geeks] Need expert opinion
    Sandwich Maker 
    adh at an.bradford.ma.us
       
    Wed Oct  6 11:54:35 CDT 2004
    
    
  
" From: Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au>
" 
" On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:29:20PM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
" > the way i'd write it, i'd set the sighandler to drop further hups
" > while processing a hup, then reset it to catch them when finished.
" 
" You can't (or at least, shouldn't).  signal() isn't Async-Signal-Safe,
" so you can't call it from within a signal handler.
" 
" man signal(3)  and  man attributes(5)  for more details.
shows you how much of a programmer i am.  i last messed with this
stuff back in the '80s, before i fell into sysadm.
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