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Message-ID: <aEeKIjbebpFcegJy@snips.stderr.spb.ru>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:28:02 +0300
From: Valery Ushakov <uwe@...err.spb.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: The `sigpause` function behavior does not fully comply with
 the POSIX specification

On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 20:15:33 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> 
> >sigpause is a 4.3BSD interface and it used to be a system call that
> >did this:
> 
> The thing you missed is that there were two mututally incompatible
> sigpause functions around.

IIRC, in the early 90s there were simultaneously 5 different sets of
APIs to work with signals.  I'm glad I forgot (nearly) everything
about that ... :)

-uwe

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