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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: SunOS4.1.3 to Solaris2.5.1 Porting issues. Supersedes: <cancel.casper.32afd36d@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 12 Dec 1996 10:42:07 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.32afd36d@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> <58bdl4$g68@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <32ADB280.55AD@jpmorgan.com> <58m3ne$hju@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92280 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1787 comp.unix.internals:11582 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Well, it looks that BSD does provide better transitional help here >(despite of the Solaris people calling us ignorant against those >problems :). sigsetmask is not provided in standard libraries becaus eit doesn't do you any good; the interface was badly designed (if designed at all) Solaris has more signals than would fit in an int or long, providing sigsetmask would spell trouble. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.