In regard to: Re: EPIPE, Michael Natterer said (at 9:05pm on May 11, 2000): >> Another solution is to save and re-install the old signal handler. We >> may even want to support some kind of chain of signal handers: the new >> signal handlers installed by the Gimp should call the ones that were >> installed before. But then we have to support the systems that have >> SA_SIGINFO and those that do not have it (this is not part of POSIX). >> The systems that have SA_SIGINFO are using extended prototypes for the >> signal handlers, so some #ifdef's will be necessary if we want to do >> that in the right way. I could contribute some code if you want, >> because I already did that in some other projects. > >Do you really think this is neccessary? I'd rather like to wait it the >current code (which is not really different from the old one except >that it uses sigaction()) works as expected. > >I guess Tim with his hardware zoo will be able to answer the question :) I'll be checking it this weekend, and I'll definitely report to the "signal crew" on my findings. :-) Tim -- Tim Mooney mooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J1, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164
