Re: [screen-devel] sigaction

[Micah Cowan]

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William Pursell wrote:
> Does screen still attempt to support platforms that
> do not provide reliable signals?  Is there any reason
> not to modify the code to use sigaction instead?
> 
> It would be nice to remove the sigset/signal/sigvec
> checks from the configury and modify the code to
> use sigaction.  Would there be any objection to
> incorporating such a patch?

I guess it boils down to: are there any systems we should still be
supporting that don't have sigaction available?

It might be safest to offer it as a conditionally compiled alternative;
but yeah, I'd take that.

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Micah J. Cowan
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