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- From: peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: <None> (Should be Open Systems, bloody NEWS system...)
- Message-ID: <id.TY9W.QL4@ferranti.com>
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Dec23.212321.26522@ryn.mro4.dec.com> <id.SQ3W.IB6@ferranti.com> <1992Dec29.012215.10632@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:17:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.012215.10632@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com writes:
- > ** I believe that you can also run into problems if you have
- > ** a signal handler that gets invoked, and resets errno in the period
- > ** between your successful system call and your test for success. It's
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- You also have problems if you invoke a signal handler that jumps to a random
- location. Assuming broken code, you can derive anything.
-
- See my previous message on this subject.
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