[klibc] Re: klibc - setenv broken
Kay Sievers
kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Mon Feb 9 23:49:57 PST 2004
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:41:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> >
> > Ok. But I just want to know why klibc should be differrent from glibc
> > that uses SA_RESTART. I needed half a hour to recognize it :)
> >
>
> glibc will use different versions of signal() depending on which feature
> test macros you happen to set. This is yet another reason to never use
> signal().
>
> klibc conforms to the default version, however, if you set the right (or
> wrong) combination of feature test macros you'll end up using
> bsd_signal() in glibc instead.
Thanks for the explanation.
It sounds crazy enough to switch to sigaction() :)
Kay
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