Re: restarting signals

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: tron
CC: neal, exim-users
Subject: Re: restarting signals
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996 tron@??? wrote:

> The way this stuff should work (presuming it is okay not to run on
> older systems that lack restartable system calls), is to always use
> system call restarts and to then use longjmp() to jump around the
> system call back to some point in your program. This usually
> requires careful use of flags to indicate when to call longjmp and
> when not to.


The problem seems to be precisely that HP-UX does lack restartable
system calls.

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