Very Computer

Okay, thanks to everyone who answered my last post - now for a new one.

Signal handling in SYSV - what is the correct way to reset the signal handler
after it has been called. I tried resetting it as the first thing when the
handler is called i.e.
foobar(sig)
int sig;
{

   signal(SIGALRM, foobar);

   blah

Quote:}

But this didn't seem to work (segmentation fault).

I then found a piece of code which does this...

foobar(sig)
int sig;
{

   signal(SIGALRM, SIG_IGN);

   blah

   signal(SIGALRM, foobar);

Quote:}

I think this works, but my de*s crappy and I'm getting errors, so I'm not
sure. (it's not my code!)

Any suggestions?

Neil Cook.

Quote:>Signal handling in SYSV - what is the correct way to reset the signal handler
>after it has been called.

>Any suggestions?

Your subject says SVR4, so my suggestion is to avoid the signal()
function completely under SVR4.  It brings in the old unreliable
Version-7 style semantics: the signal handler does not remain
installed when it's called and the signal being caught isn't
automatically blocked.

You should be using the newer POSIX.1 sigaction() function and
friends.  The signal handler remains installed until you change it.